SOUTH VIETNAM: POST OFFICE BLAST INJURES SEVEN.

Record ID: 230400

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: POST OFFICE BLAST INJURES SEVEN.
  • Date: 29th April 1969
  • Summary: GIA DINH STREET SCENE; EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF BOMBED POST OFFICE. Initials PS/VS/AS/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th May 1969 13:00
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  • Location: GIA DINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVAECPPS8DK1L3KHDAO731U0XK65
  • Story Text: THE CENTRAL POST OFFICE AT GIA DINH, A SAIGON SUBURB, WAS THE TARGET OF A VIETCONG BOMB AT THE WEEKEND DURING A NEW WAVE OF TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTH VIETNAM CAPITAL. SEVEN PEOPLE WERE INJURED -- FIVE OF THEM BELONGING TO THE POST MASTER'S FAMILY.

    THE BLAST DAMAGED 80 PER CENT OF THE BUILDING AND TORE A HOLE IN THE ROOF.

    THE SAME NIGHT IN GIA DINH, TWO YOUTH THREW A HAND GRENADE AT A GROUP OF CIVIL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS, WOUNDED A WOMEN PASSER-BY.

    THE EXPLOSIONS WERE TWO OF SEVEN INCIDENTS INVOLVING EXPLOSIVES IN SAIGON ON SATURDAY (26 APRIL) WHICH KILLED SEVEN PEOPLE ON THE 4,106TH ANNIVERSARY OF VIETNAM'S FOUNDER KING HUNG VUONG.
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