FIVE BABIES KILLED
DIRECT HIT ON GARAGE
(Received January 17, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, January 16,
A garage proprietor and his two daughters were killed when a bomb registered a direct hit on the garage, setting fire to 1000 gallons of petrol and hurling the equipment in all directions.
A young air warden had just returned home after working all night when a bomb hit the house, killing him and his parents.
When a bomb struck a block of flats a man and his wife were killed, but the other tenants, who had gone to shelter, escaped.
Several people suffered shock because they passed through the barricades at a time when a delayed-action bomb exploded.
An air warden said that people were becoming so indifferent to bombing that they disobeyed warnings.
A bomb that fell in a thickly-popu-lated Midlands town, demolishing six houses. Seven persons were killed, including five babies.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 8
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