No-warning bomb blast at SF office

A NO-WARNING bomb exploded outside a Sinn Fein advice centre in Derry early yesterday morning

A NO-WARNING bomb exploded outside a Sinn Fein advice centre in Derry early yesterday morning. The blast occurred just before 3 a.m. outside Sinn Fein's office at Racecourse Road in the Shantallow area of the city. No one was injured.

The Sinn Fein chairman, Mr Mitchel McLaughlin, said the explosion was an attempt to intimidate his party in the run-up to the British general election.

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