Word: lisburn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three weeks slipped through military checkpoints to plant smaller bombs in the same area. Later, in the seaside resort town of Bangor, Proves eluded door guards to set off fire bombs in four stores, causing at least $12 million in damages. Bombs planted in cars also went off in Lisburn and Antrim, leaving sections of these towns looking like World War II battlegrounds...
Next day a series of bombs went off; one of them devastated a stretch of Belfast's Wellington Street and killed a British officer. Another 18 persons were injured in a blast in Lisburn, the site of British army headquarters...