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My August 7, 1998 moment: A reporter recalls city's dark day

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Ufundi Co-op House caved inward after the blast, trapping scores of people under the massive rubble. [File, Standard]

On August 7, 1998, I found myself in a rare unfamiliar territory of being idle at Nation Centre's 3rd-floor newsroom without a major crime story or an exclusive investigative story I was chasing or piecing together.

A few minutes past 10.25am, I picked up the desk telephone and called a police contact trying my luck on a tip-off for a crime story.

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