Opponents of Fur Trade Suspected of Mailing Bomb
Associated Press
LONDON —
A parcel bomb sent to a furrier’s shop in Leeds was blown up by the army late Saturday, and West Yorkshire police said. Sunday that they suspect activists who oppose the fur trade.
The police said the alarm was raised by a worker whose suspicions were aroused after the package arrived in the morning mail.
Mark Glover, director of an anti-fur-trade campaign called Lynx. dissociated his group from any bomb plot when he spoke to a rally in London’s Trafalgar Square.
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