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infested and a health hazard and they insist that the Bogside remains a no-go area Friday 30th June 1972 Vehicles hi-jacked on Shankill Four vans, a lorry and a mechanical digger were hi-jacked as the UDA deadline approached. RUC headquarters the vehicles were taken at around midday – two laundry vans on the Shankill Road and a lorry from the Corporation yard at Sydenham. An hour later a mechanical digger was hi-jacked at Ainsworth Avenue, a van at North
Street and a van at Ballysillan Park. An RUC spokesman said that as yet the vehicles have not been located and he was assuming that they were being stored somewhere until evening. Friday 30th June 1972 Army finds three mines Three claymore type mines thought to have been planted before the IRA ceasefire have been found on a border road near Garrison, Fermanagh. They were discovered by troops of 16/5th Lancers and later blown up on the spot by Army experts.
Friday 30th June 1972 Armed robbery in Strabane Three armed men have gotten away with about £6,000 from the Munster and Leinster Bank in Strabane. Two of the raiders were armed with pistols and the third with a submachine gun. It is understood that no shots were fired during the raid nr was anyone in injured. Friday 30th June 1972 Tyrone demonstrations banned The Government has banned two parades in Coalisland, County Tyrone. One is to be held on Saturday by the Ulster Protestant Volunteers and the second is a meeting being organised in the town by the civil resistance committee.
Friday 30th June 1972 RUC men and Marines sent for trial Two Royal Marines and two RUC men have been sent for trail on a charge of jointly assaulting and causing actual bodily harm to a 24year-old Tyrone man while he was being taken to the prison ship, Maidstone. Friday 30th June 1972 IRA to patrol cemetery The Derry command of the Provisional IRA has appealed to parents to prevent their children from using Derry City cemetery as a playground. A spokesman said they were abhorred to find the cemetery, which is in the “Free Derry” area TOP - UDA funeral of John Brown BOTTOM - UDA funeral of John Black