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Press 040640.
4 September, 1967
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An Assistant Station Officer of Fire Services Department was killed last night in explosion of a bomb which had been placed outside Eastern Fire Station in Hennessy Road at its junction with Canal Road West.
Ten other people including two policemen, four firemen and the wife of the Assistant Station Officer were injured in the blast.
The bomb had been discovered shortly after nine o'clock on road outside fire station. Police were notified and on arrival an Inspector and a constable had just placed a rope around the bomb when it went off injuring them and several Fire Officers watching.
This included the Assistant Station Officer and his wife who were watching from a second floor window in the Station overlooking Hennessy Road.
Several minutes later a European passerby was injured in an explosion of a second bomb which had been either thrown or dropped.
Following this Police carried out a search of buildings in neighbourhood and detained two men.
About half an hour before this incident a man and woman were hurt when a bomb exploded after being struck by a car in Percival Street area.
At about same time another bomb was thrown at Yee Woo Street but this did not explode. It was later detonated by an ammunition expert »
There was also a bomb explosion outside Peking restaurant in Causeway Bay and four people two men and two women were injured.
Two hours later shortly after eleven o'clock ten persons ranging in ages from eight to twenty-eight years were hurt by a bomb which exploded in Wuhu Street in Hung Hom district of Kowloon. Five of them were detained in hospital for treatment.
The incident occurred shortly after an army bomb disposal unit had left the area. They had been dealing with two bombs which had been hung across the road on a banner.
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