Honourable Artillery Company bombing

Honourable Artillery Company bombing
Part of the Troubles
Armoury House, the building where the bomb occurred
Location St Luke's, London, United Kingdom
Date 9 June 1990 (UTC)
Attack type
 Time bomb
Deaths 0
Non-fatal injuries
 19
Perpetrator Provisional Irish Republican Army

On 9 June 1990, the Provisional IRA detonated a time bomb inside the Armoury House hall of the Honourable Artillery Company's (HAC) military barracks in London, England.[1] Nineteen people, all young civilians and mostly students, were injured in the blast. At the time the hall was hired for a 21st birthday party of a Cambridge law student, -[2] on most other Saturdays the bar is full of Territorial Army (TA) reserve soldiers.[3] The bomb was left on a short timer of only an hour before its explosion shortly before midnight, and no warning was given, but fatalities were avoided because of the hall's roof structure.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ AP. "Bombs Injure 17 in London And Off-Duty Ulster Soldier".
  2. ↑ "TA bomb may have been set during party". HeraldScotland.
  3. ↑ "LONDON BARRACKS BOMB INJURES 17 CIVILIANS". 11 June 1990 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  4. ↑ Powell, Gary (15 January 2017). "Death Diary: A Year of London Murder, Execution, Terrorism and Treason". Amberley Publishing Limited – via Google Books.
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