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In November 1992, the IRA planted a large van bomb at Canary Wharf, London's second financial district. However, security guards immediately alerted the police and the bomb was defused. [5] In April 1993, the IRA detonated another powerful truck bomb in the City of London. It killed one person and caused £500 million worth of damage.
The World Trade Centre was an 89-metre (292 ft), 19 storey building in the Canary Wharf area of London, England, built in 1991. The building was heavily damaged by an IRA bomb on February 9, 1996. The top four floors were demolished and after a proposal called World Trade Centre London to redevelop it as offices was cancelled following ...
On 9 February 1996, the Provisional IRA successfully detonated a large bomb at South Quay, south of Canary Wharf (outside Canary Wharf), which killed two people and devastated several buildings. This explosion is commonly, but erroneously, referred to as the "Canary Wharf bomb". [53] [54]
15 November 1992: The IRA planted a bomb at Canary Wharf in the Docklands. The device was spotted by security guards and was deactivated safely. [54] 16 November 1992: A device in van in Collingwood Street, Bethnal Green E1 was made safe. [54]
1996 Manchester bombing: The PIRA parked a van containing an enormous bomb in the city centre and phoned a warning to police. The bomb, the largest to explode in Britain since World War II, caused extensive damage. But despite injuring 212 people, the bomb did not kill anyone as the area had been evacuated, although a bomb squad failed to ...
9 February - A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the London Docklands area, near Canary Wharf, injuring around forty, and marking the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire. [1] [2] 17 March - a three year old is killed by the RUC in Dungannon. 31 March - Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast is closed. [3]
After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf in 1992, a large IRA bomb exploded at South Quay on 9 February 1996. Two people died in the explosion, forty people were injured and an estimated £150 million of damage was caused. [8] This bombing ended an IRA ceasefire. [9]
12 October 1992: Sussex Arms bombing: A bomb exploded in the gents' toilet of a pub in Covent Garden, killing one person and injuring four others. 16 November 1992: IRA planted a bomb at the Canary Wharf, but was spotted by security guards. The bomb failed to detonate.