Ireland: Letter Bomb Defused/IAIS


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LETTER BOMB DEFUSED
10/16/97 14:12 EST

A letter bomb has been sent to the offices of Ulster
Unionist leader, David Trimble in Lurgan, Co Armagh. It
arrived in the morning post. British army bomb disposal
experts were called to the scene and defused the device
which was described as being crude but capable of causing
serious injury.

A number of homes and businesses have also been evacuated in
nationalist West Belfast in a bomb scare. A British army
bomb disposal team is examining a suspect object found
behind shops on the Andersonstown Road this afternoon.

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