Parcels warning

Press, 6 October 1987, Page 1

Parcels warning

NZPA-AAP Suva Fiji security forces warned yesterday about a guerrilla group blamed for two bomb blasts in a week, which killed one man and injured seven others. They said the public should be wary of “suspicious objects or parcels,” and tell the police about them immediately. <•-. The warning was issued as the authorities confirmed for the first time a bomb Mart atNandi police station in western Fiji on Saturday night which seriously Injured a police constable. Constable Salrusi Roko was opening a parcel brought to the station by two youths who said they had found it in a toilet at Nandi Civic Centre. It blew up in his face, Inflicting severe injuries to

the head, right hand, and legs. His condition in Lautoka Hospital yesterday was described as serious. The two youths, another policeman and a bystander suffered minor injuries. A week before, a man was killed in Suva when a homemade bomb exploded in his lap as he drove along a seafront road. Two other men in the car were injured. tion Department, said security forces had connected the two explosions, and believed the same “group" was responsible. It said the security forces were “on top of the situation, and the group responsible Is under surveillance."

The security forces also condemned the group.