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Kent Car Bomb Injures Pregnant Victoria Fabian: Family Targeted?

by Paul Conneally | March 6, 2010 at 01:07 am

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A pregnant woman was injured after her car exploded and set alight in a suspected car bomb attack. Victoria Fabian, was driving out of a car-park in the sleepy Kent village of Vigo.

She had to be pulled from her car, burnt and bleeding, by her husband Nick and a passing teenager. Her two sons aged 4 and 8 who were also in the car escaped unhurt. Nick Fabian is reported as being a bomb disposal expert with the British Army.

The explosion blew some homes' windows out and witnesses said Mrs Fabian was dragged from her car screaming 'my baby'. She was taken to Darent Valley Hospital with severe leg injuries.

It is reported that this incident is one of an ongoing series of hate attacks on the Fabians. Just before Christmas their car was set alight and the brake lines on their car have been cut several times. Police are investigating the explosion and an Army bomb disposal unit is sweeping the area.

Police were called to the village just after 1pm on Friday to reports of an explosion at the village near Meopham, north Kent, which blew some homes’ windows out. Witnesses said Mr Fabian, who worked at the Battersea Dogs Home in nearby West Kingsdown, tried to treat his heavily bleeding wife, who is six months pregnant, as she lay screaming “my baby”

Bomb disposal experts rushed to a quiet Kent village yesterday after a car mysteriously exploded, leaving a pregnant woman severely injured. Her two young sons were also inside but escaped unhurt after they were rescued from the vehicle by onlookers moments before it erupted into flames.

The vehicle was torn apart by the blast at Vigo, Kent. A bomb disposal squad was called in as neighbours, police and firemen rescued the mother and son.

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Uwe Paschen

at 01:23 on March 6th, 2010

This is low by any standard. Car bombs and other such attacks are those of a sick mind with out a conscience what so ever.

mudricky

at 03:46 on March 6th, 2010

It's bad enough that it may have been the woman who was targerted but with two kids in the car too, someone means business and don't care who gets hurt.

Lets hope the police can figure it out.

Amy Judd

at 08:17 on March 6th, 2010

Gosh how awful

t k kidwai

at 10:06 on March 6th, 2010

We never ponder over as how such things happen?Mere expression of shock and awe won't help.What has gone terribly wrong with us?That is a question we must try to find an answer to.It is indeed shocking,condemanble act of wicked person/s.To purge socities of such wicked elements,states have turned more iniquitous.No one knows how to break this vicious circle.