Bomb Explodes in Derry Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source:Padraigin Newell BOMB EXPLODES IN DERRY 10/30/97 12:09 EST Three hundred office workers escaped to safety today after a bomb exploded in a tax office in Derry. The device, in a holdall, was planted just after 11AM by a masked man armed with a handgun. He left the bag in the office and shouted: "This is a bomb." No-one was injured when what is believed to have been the detonator exploded. Derry Mayor Martin Bradley condemned the attack at Orchard House at Foyle Street, where 300 civil servants work. "This is a very sick attempt by somebody to disrupt the peace that we have in Derry, obviously by somebody who has no concern for the city or for the people who live here. I think it is an outrageous attact on the people of Derry." The area around Orchard House remains sealed off. And there is a security alert in Armagh City. A telephone caller claiming to represent the Continuity IRA said a 500lb bomb was left beside a derelect building at Lower English Street. __________________________________________________________ The Irish American Information Service is a non-profit orginization provding up-to-the-minute objective coverage of news as it happens in Ireland and the North. Please visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.iais.org ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-10.31.97-21:25:41-9558