The Archive · 1938

Civilian Area Bombed

Regarding the raid on Sitges on August 8, the report states that bombs were dropped on the civilian, area, and if the object of the pilot was'to attack the railway line, they should have chosen another point on the line well away from the tow Sitges was sheltering 3,000 refugee children, and 400 refugee women at, the time.

'The attack on Torrevieja, carried out on August 25, is stated' to have been a "deliberate attack on a defenceless civilian population."

The attack is said to have been carried out at a low altitude, and in_good weather conditions, Ten persons were killed, and forty injured, and thirty houses wese demolished, in a Nationalist air raid on, Palamos, according to a Republican News Agency report from Barcelona,

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