Ill elderly forced to evacuate care home due to bomb attacks

ELDERLY residents at a care home - including some people who had just been released from hospital - were forced to evacuate their homes after dissident republicans planted two bombs that rocked Londonderry last night. (Thursday)
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Jan 2012, 09:41 BST

Swift condemnation followed the two explosions which were heard across the city shortly before 9pm.

One explosion took place in the vicinity of the city’s tourist office in Foyle Street and another followed at a DHSS office close to the council headquarters on the Strand Road

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Several dozen residents at an elderly care home close to the Foyle Street incident were evacuated because of the explosion and were given shelter in the city’s Tower Hotel. City Centre Initiative Manager Jim Roddy who was with the elderly residents at the hotel said: “Some of these people just got out of hospital today.

“The people who do this simply do not care about the people of this city. SDLP MLA for Foyle, and former Mayor of Londonderry, Colum Eastwood said: “My immedaiate reaction is one of anger-an anger that will be shared by the people of this city. Once again we have a small number of people to hold back the people of this city-an attack for absolutely no reason.

“These people are the enemies of the people of Derry and the people of Ireland.”