
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.

