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Coroner keen to reopen Whiskey investigation, 50 years after the fact
Thursday April 29, 2021
A Queensland coroner will reopen investigations into the Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing with a new inquest into the 1973 arson attack that killed 15 people.
Scene at the fatal Whiskey Au Go Go fire after it was firebombed. (ABC photo).
A pre-inquest hearing is due to be held in Brisbane on Thursday and Friday before State Coroner Terry Ryan, almost half a century after the horrific attack.
Fifteen people were killed when two 23-litre drums of fuel were thrown into the foyer of the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley just after 2am on…
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