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Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies

Aug. 27, 1971 - One man killed and 36 injured when bomb explodes in electricity board offices in Belfast: One man was killed and 36 other people injured, most of them teen-aged girl clerks and typists, as a 15 lb. gelignite bomb exploded at the headquarters of the electricity board in Malone Road, Belfast on Wednesday last. The bomb, hidden in a locker on the first floor, went off 90 seconds after an anonymous telephone call that bombs had been planted on the building. Photo shows injured women and girls being taken to hospital after the explosion in Belfast

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