MANY CASUALTIES
AMMUNITION EXPLOSION Received Tuesday, 9.20 p.m. SAIGON, April 9. It is estimated thac 20 were killea and 30 gravely injured by a series ox tremendous and still uncontrolled ex plosions in a huge French ammunitioa dunip on the outskirts of the city. Three hundred others suffered from cuts and minor injuries. The fate of iOo workinen inside the dnmp has not yet been ascertained. The French army threw barricades around the danger zone and began thc evacuation of all civilians. Truck loads of wounded streamed into the hospitals. The expiosion is officially stated lo" be due to. an accident. Press com munications from the city were disrupt ed, but the British Army Signal Corps is providing an emergency service. Refugees said that scores of house windows were shatetred for miles around the dump. The Rue Catinat, a leading shopping distriet, was littered with rubble. The military authorities said that a number of 12001b. bombs were still unexploded.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1946, Page 5
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