FISHERMEN KILLED
TRAGEDY DURING MANOEUVRES -PERTH, Jan. 5. A bomb from an Allied service plane on practice manoeuvres exploded in the sea near a fishing boat on Monday night, killing two men and injuring a third. Another bomb wrecked part of a beach house which a few minutes before had been occupied by a woman and two boys. The area is occasionally used for bombing practice. The occupants of the house heard planes approaching after the men in the'boat had been hit. They ran into the bush. When they returned they found one wall of the house had been blown in.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25426, 6 January 1944, Page 2
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