RHODESIA: BOMB EXPLOSION WRECKS CHEMIST SHOP IN SALISBURY.

Record ID: 358350

  • Title: RHODESIA: BOMB EXPLOSION WRECKS CHEMIST SHOP IN SALISBURY.
  • Date: 3rd December 1964
  • Summary: FILM SHOWS THE DAMAGED SHOP AND BLAST DAMAGE TO A POLICE STATION NEARBY. Initials DS/S/JH/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th December 1964 12:00
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  • Location: SALISBURY, SOUTHERN RHODESIA
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Reuters ID: LVADCQEYO8ZO6XTIX5SYG8VN0C06
  • Story Text: POLICE IN SALISBURY, RHODESIA, ARE STEPPING UP THEIR HUNT FOR PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR A SERIES OF BOMB EXPLOSIONS WHICH HAVE ROCKED THE CITY. IN THE LATEST INCIDENT, A CHEMIST SHOP WAS WRECKED ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT BY A HOME MADE BOMB EXPLOSION.

    LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE CITY HAVE BEEN DISTURBED BY THE GROWING NUMBER OF INCIDENTS IN WHICH PROPERTY OWNED BY EUROPEANS HAS BEEN ATTACKED. ALTHOUGH NOBODY WAS HURT IN WEDNESDAY'S BLAST, THE SHOP WAS EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED AND THE STOCK OF DRUGS AND PROPRIETARY PRODUCTS DESTROYED.

    IN THE MEANTIME, POLICE ARE KEEPING A WATCH FRO A GROUP OF AFRICAN NATIONALIST THEY BELIEVE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THE INCIDENTS WHICH HAVE INCLUDED BOMB ATTACKS, THE STONING OF PARKED CARS AND ATTEMPTS AT ARSON.
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