1973 Westminster bombing
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| 1973 Westminster bombing | |
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Attack type | Car bomb |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 60 |
| Perpetrator | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
The 1973 Westminster bombing was a
It was one of many IRA car bombings in Northern Ireland and England during the Troubles.
Aftermath
In the week following the Westminster car bomb, several more IRA bombs exploded in London. The day after the Westminster bombing on 19 December, one person was injured when an IRA letterbomb exploded at a London postal sorting office. Five days later on Christmas Eve 1973, the IRA bombed two London pubs, first the North Star public house, where six people were injured & the second at the Swiss Cottage Tavern, in which an unspecified number of people were injured. The last bombs exploded on Boxing Day 1973 when the Stage Door public house was bombed injuring one person, on the same day another bomb exploded at Sloane Square station there were no injuries in this attack.[4][5]
See also
- Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1970–79)
References
- ^ "BOMB INCIDENTS (LONDON) (Hansard, 18 December 1973)". api.parliament.uk.
- ^ Peterson, Robert William; Chrisman, Willard George (March 1977). "1977 International terrorism threat analysis" (PDF). calhoun.nps.edu. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 April 2018.
- ISBN 9781317480471– via Google Books.
- ISBN 0-7165-3373-1.
- ^ Leigh, David (27 December 1973). "Two more bomb attacks in London". Times Newspaper archive. Retrieved 4 September 2010.