The Salisbury Woolworths bombing

Quand

6 août 1977

Type

Attentat terroriste

Coordonnées

17.84° S, 31.04° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Salisbury Woolworths bombing.

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.

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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