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The first bomb, hidden inside a stolen [[Ford Cortina]], exploded at 10:15 outside McElhinney’s bar and store on Main Street. A second bomb, hidden inside a stolen [[Mini#Morris_Mini_Traveller_and_Austin_Mini_Countryman_.281961.E2.80.931969.29|Morris Mini Traveller]] parked outside the Post Office on Main Street, was spotted by a police officer, Sergeant Jones, who then began directing people away from the area towards Church Street. At 10:30, a bomb hidden inside a stolen [[Mini#Mini_Van_.281960.E2.80.931982.29|Mini Van]] detonated outside the Beaufort Hotel on Church Street. The bomb outside the Post Office exploded almost simultaneously.
===Locations of victims===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Age
! Gender
! Location
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| 8
| Female
| Killed instantly by first bomb while cleaning the windows of her family's shop on Main Street.<ref name="newsni">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11026426|title=The victims of the Claudy bombing|date=24 August 2010|accessdate=24 August 2010|work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>
|-
| 15
| Male
| Fatally injured by [[Fragmentation (weaponry)|shrapnel]] from the first bomb while standing inside a shop on Main Street. Died from his wounds 8 August 1972.<ref name=newsni />
|-
|16
|Male
|Killed instantly by the Church Street bomb after being injured by the first explosion.<ref name=newsni />
|-
|38
|Male
|Fatally injured by shrapnel from the first bomb while standing inside McElhinney's bar and store. Died from his wounds 13 August 1972<ref name=newsni />
|-
|39
|Male
|Killed instantly by the first bomb while buying a newspaper in Main Street.<ref name=newsni />
|-
|52
|Female
|Fatally injured by shrapnel from the first bomb while standing inside her shop on Main Street. Died from her wounds 3 August 1972.<ref name=newsni />
|-
|59
|Female
|Killed instantly by the first bomb while serving petrol from the pump outside McElhinney'sbar and store.<ref name=newsni />
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|60
|Male
|Killed instantly by the Church Street bomb while tending to the injured from the first explosion<ref name=newsni />
|-
|65
|Male
|Killed instantly by the Church Street bomb while tending to the injured from the first explosion<ref name=newsni />
|}
== Involvement of Father James Chesney ==
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