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The New IRA claimed responsibility and said it also planted an "anti-personnel device" nearby, targeting members of the security forces. [222] 18 June: The New IRA was blamed for planting a booby-trap bomb under the car of a married couple, both of whom are PSNI officers, in Eglinton. It was found and defused by the security forces. [224]
17 January – Dunmurry train bombing: An IRA bomb prematurely detonated on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three civilians and injuring five others. 7 March – an INLA active service unit planted two 10 lb. bombs at Netheravon British Army camp in the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Only one bomb detonated and caused damage, started a ...
Ballygawley bus bombing; 1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing; 1998 Banbridge bombing; Battle of Lenadoon; Bayardo Bar attack; List of attacks on British aircraft during The Troubles; 1978 British Army Gazelle downing; 1988 British Army Lynx shootdown; 1990 British Army Gazelle shootdown; 1991 British Army Lynx shootdown
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.
27 February 1993: Camden Town bombing: An IRA bomb exploded on Camden High Street in London, injuring 18. 20 March 1993: Warrington bomb attacks (Part 2): Two bombs exploded in litter bins in a shopping precinct in Warrington, Cheshire, killing a three-year-old boy and injuring 55 people. The second bomb occurred within a minute of the first ...
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [6] It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year.
28 April: an IRA bomb derailed a CIÉ goods train travelling from Dundalk to Belfast. The bomb exploded just after the train crossed the border at Kilnasaggart in South Armagh, throwing the middle wagons off the tracks. [125] [135] 3 May: a 400–500 lb (180–230 kg) IRA bomb caused extensive damage in Clady, County Tyrone. [125]
These shipments were partly in retaliation for the British Government's support for the US Air Force's (USAF) bombing attacks on Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986, which in turn were in retaliation for the 1986 bombing of the La Belle discotheque in Berlin. The USAF planes involved in the bombings had taken off from British bases on 14 April 1986 ...