October 6, 1976
On October 6, 1976, two bombs placed inside a washroom aboard Cubana Airlines Flight 455 from Guyana to Havana by way of Barbados exploded, killing all 73 passengers and crew, including 24 members of the Cuban national fencing team, many of them teenagers who had just won a Caribbean fencing tournament.
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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