SHELTER STRUCK
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.
MILLION TO ONE CHANCE
BOMB DOWN VENTILATOR
SCENE OF AGONY CAUSED
London, Sept. 8. A bomb that • struck an * East London shelter in which 1000 people were taking refuge, including many mothers and babies, produced agonising scenes. At least 14 people were killed and 50 seriously injured. The bomb by a million to one chance fell directly down the ventilator shaft It was the only vulnerable place of the powerfully protected shelter. Mothers, were killed outright and babies were swept from perambulators. | The roof support and pillars were torn| down. The occupants lay stunned in j heaps. Members of the Civil Defence | Corps laboured fearlessly among the debris. Nine doctors answered calis and saved lives by improvising tourniquefe and dressing wounds by the dim glow of , torches. 1 Three children of one family were killed. The parents escaped. The shelter to-day presented a tragic picture. Perambulators and corrugated iron sheeting lay entangled with heaps of bedclothing, pillows, blackened gasmasks, toys and the remains of meals.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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