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A (lOOrdinated bombina: campaicn cond'ucted by Sikh extremists durin, 10-12 May
lefl 85 penons ip Delhi and other citid dead and morc than I SO wounded. Marc
than a dozen bombs exploded in buses. bus stations. and other crowded .rcas: some
of the unelploded devices found and defused were boobytrappcd portable radi05.
This was the hiaM.st thri:C-day death tJlI yet attnbUrJOrSikh terrorism and the
first coordinated bombina campeian since 37 train st.tions wcre bombed on,
15 April 1984. ThC$C attacks came on the eve of the tri.1 of three Sikhs accused of
ususinatinaPrime Minister Indira G.iMihi and prior to the 6 June annivcrsary of
the Itomlin, of the Sikhs' Golden Temple by the Indian Army. Indian police have
arrested 1.000 suspects so far and beliC"c they have identified three persons
responsible for the bombrncs.tiII( >. b.3
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On I May the Belaian terrorist eroup Combatant Communist Cells (CCC)
resumed its bombina camp.i,n with an attack that caused the first fatalities
attributable to the ,roup. A bomb pla~ a car outside the Employers'
federation of Belaium exploded and killed two firemen who had been tryina to
defuse it. Group members had distributed pamphlets at the scene warnin, of the
bOmb and phoned police I S minutes prior to the explosion. In addition to the
fatalities, several other aspects of this attack wue new for the CCC-the
distri~ut~n o~ leaflets at the scene, the warnine call, and publication of a l
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