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, a Woolworths store in

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(today Harare, Zimbabwe) 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. Mr Mayor and another daughter, Wendy, were seated in a car outside when the bomb went off.''The Bryan Times'' newspaper report on the attack, 8 August 1977
accessed 7 September 2014 The bomb, comprising about of high explosives, was planted in an area where customers checked packages in before shopping on the upper floor of the two-storey building. It detonated shortly before the crowded store was to close at noon that Saturday.''Lakeland Ledger'' newspaper report on the attack, 7 August 1977
accessed 7 September 2014 The perpetrators, two teachers, afterwards escaped to Mozambique.

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, the Rhodesian Prime Minister, expressed horror at the bombing. "Those who have perpetrated this barbarous outrage can hardly be described as human," he said. Rhodesian black nationalist leaders Bishop

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and the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole also condemned the attack.

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