LONDON RAID VICTIMS ORDEAL
LONDON, October 18. Rescue squads released Dlrs. Edith Durrant, aged 26, the wife of a railway worker, who was buried for .10 hours after a raider dropped a bomb in a London street lined with tenement houses. Rescuers, after working for six hours, heard a womans’ cry for help, and found Mrs. Durrant in the basement kitchen, lying under debris on an iron bedstead. She had thrown herself as protection over ■her seven-months’-old baby, but the child was dead. Mrs. Durrant was pinned so securely to the bed that she could not be moved, despite the efforts of the rescuers, who were finally forced to abandon tlieir efforts and' await the arrival of heavy rescue squads. The death-roll in one London area has reached eight, and other people are still feared tn be trapped.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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138LONDON RAID VICTIMS ORDEAL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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