What the records say
- When
- 6 Aug 1977
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 17.84° S, 31.04° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Salisbury Woolworths bombing.
Summary
The Salisbury Woolworths bombing. A 30 kg bomb exploded in a Woolworths store in Salisbury killing 11 people and wounding 76. The victims were black, white and coloured. The store on the corner of Pioneer Street, and Bank Street was also badly damaged.
Salisbury Woolworths bombing
1977 bombing of a department store in Rhodesia
On 6 August 1977, during the Rhodesian Bush War, a Woolworths store in Salisbury, Rhodesia was bombed by nationalist forces. Eleven civilians were killed and 76 were injured. Of those killed, eight were black Rhodesians, including two pregnant women and a young boy, and three were whites, members of a single family, Gillian and Donald Mayor and their mother.
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