Bombs go to U.K. targets
NZPA-Reuter London Five letter-bombs containing incendiary devices were sent to various targets in Britain yesterday, apparently by animal rights protesters, but none caused damage or injury, said the police. One was received by the Canadian High Commission in London, another by the Agriculture Minister's office, a third by a fur dealer in Manchester and the remaining two by medical and veterinary research centres in . Bristol and Cambridge.
The police said that they believed the letters were mailed by the Animal Rights Militia, a little-known group responsible for sending a package which injured an official at Mrs Margaret Thatcher’s offices last November..
Yesterday’s packages were dealt with by bomb disposal experts, said a Scotland Yard spokesman.
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Press, 17 February 1983, Page 8
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