6 WORLD and NATION
Tuesday, February 19, 1991
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Terrorist bombs rock London train stations
LONDON (AP) — A bomb exploded at
Victoria Station during morning rush hour
Monday, 45 minutes after a caller claiming
to represent the Irish Republican Army
warned of bombs at all of London’s train
stations, police said. One man was killed
and 40 people were wounded.
The explosion at 7:46 a.m. sent scream
ing commuters running from the train ter
minal, some trailing blood across the con
course. Rush-hour rail traffic was halted for
hours as police searched on their hands and
knees for clues.
No
> group immediately claimed responsi
bility for the blast at Victoria, one of Lon
don’s two main train stations.
The warning was delivered by a man
with an Irish accent who said: “We are the
Irish Republican Army. Bombs to go off at
all mainline stations in 45 minutes,”
saidScotland Yard’s anti-terrorist chief,
Commander George Churchill-Coleman.
It came less than three hours after a
bomb exploded at Paddington station, the
city’s other main station. Only a dozen em
ployees were on duty, and no one was in
jured.
Churchill-Coleman said the call was only
one of a number of threats following the
Paddington explosion, and that the others
“transpired either to be false or malicious.”
Iain McGregor, deputy chief constable of
the British Transport Police, said his de
partment gets half a dozen bomb threats a
day.
Churchill-Coleman said the warning was
passed to the British Transport Police, who
already were searching all the main railway
terminals when the blast at Victoria oc-
cured.
The bomb, which was hidden in a trash
can on the concourse, “was quite deliber
ately intended to maim and kill,” he said.
British Rail Chairman Robert Reid said
the caller’s timing may have been a deliber
ate attempt to make his warning appear to
be a hoax.
“Let’s face it, as soon as you have an inci
dent, your telephone lines are choked with
hoax calls,” Reid said in an interview on
British Broadcasting Corp. radio. “Sintt
these two incidents we’ve had hoax calls!
the way up the line.”
British Rail closed all mainline station!
af ter the bombings, suspending service that
carries half a million people into the capital
every day.
Several hours after the Victoria
Heathrow Airport, Britain’s busiest, wai
evacuated briefly Monday after police rt
ceived a vague bomb threat, an airpott
spokeswoman said. Police searched anil
found nothing.
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that would protect a woman’s right
to abortion in the event Roe vs.
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lature, ending intense lobbying and
a yearlong battle.
The House approved the bill on a
vote of 84-52 and sent the measure
to Gov. William Donald Schaefer,
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A proposed, anti-abortion “con
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The group, driving in two cars, was stopiped by
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Sunday for driving in excess of 90 mph, Jones
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one of the men, Hoang Nguyen, 20, was found to
be wanted by Houston authorities for a Feb. 8
robbery and shooting at a residence there.
“He was supposedly armed and dangerous,”
Jones said.
Also held by Kansas authorities Monday were:
Tai Kim Pham, 22, of Denver; Vinh Tran
Nguyen, 20, of Houston; Khai Kinh Nguyen, 20,
Houston; Tarn Hoang Nguyen, 18, Houston;
and two women identified as Lily Nguyen, 20, of
Houston, the wife of Hoang Nguyen; and Joo
Yum Back, 19, of Pasadena, Texas.
Aside from the Texas felony warrant for the
arrest of Hoang Nguyen, Jones said, there have
been no charges filed against seven people.
The seven were being held at the Thomas
County Law Enforcement Center in Colby. Jones
said diamond rings, gold jewelry and money
were found in the car. A red ski mask and four
handguns were found under the hood of one of
the cars, tucked into an engine part, he said.
The jewelry, some with initials and names in
scribed, matched the description of some that
were taken during the church robbery here,
Jones said.
Wheat Ridge Police were en route to Col*
Monday afternoon to investigate, said Peg?
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lice Department.
A gang of Asian gunmen stormed the Que
of Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church just £
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robbed about 30 members. Parishioners nf
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minor wounds after they were pistol-whipped
the robbers.
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ports of the Wheat Ridge robbery and shoe
Monday morning and called police there.
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