1992 London Bridge bombing

Provisional IRA attack in London April 2022 event February 2022 London Bridge station bombing the Troubles London Bridge Station, main entrance 1996 geograph-3760087-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg London Bridge station interior, 1996 London, England 28 February 1992 8:30 am GMT UTC Time bomb 0 29 Provisional Irish Republican Army On Friday 28 February 1992, the Provisional IRA (IRA) exploded a bomb inside London Bridge station during the morning rush hour, causing extensive damage and wounding 29 people.http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch92.htm#Feb Chronology of the Conflict 1992 Dr Martin Melaugh CAIN It was one of many bombings carried out by one of the IRA's London active service units. It occurred just over a year after a bomb at Victoria station.https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1996/mar/04/terrorist-incidents Terrorist Incidents 4 March 1996 Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Bombing Around 8:20 am, someone rang Ulster Television's London office warning that a bomb was going to explode in a London station, without saying which one. About ten minutes later, the bomb detonated, which made debris fly almost 50 ft m away from the blast area.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-29-mn-2384-story.html IRA Bomb Injures 28 in Busy London Railway Station Associated Press 29 February 1992 LA Times Twenty nine people were hurt in the explosion, most of them from flying glass and other bits of debris; four were seriously hurt but nobody was killed. The victims were treated at Guy's Hospital.https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/29/world/bombing-in-london-leaves-28-injured.html Bombing in London leaves 28 injured 29 February 1992 The New York Times Aftermath The head of Scotland Yard's anti terrorist squad, George Churchill-Coleman, said the 2 lb g bomb of high explosives was "clearly designed to kill." Investigations suggested that the bomb was placed in the men's restrooms. Churchill-Coleman added that the IRA's warning was "deliberately vague" and was given too late to act upon.http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0001200261020 London Bridge IRA bomb · British Universities Film & Video Council bufvc.ac.uk Prime Minister John Major said the bombing would not change British policy in Northern Ireland. "It was pointless. It was cowardly. It was directed against innocent people and it will make absolutely no difference to our policy -- no difference at all."https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/29/world/bombing-in-london-leaves-28-injured.html Bombing in London Leaves 28 Injured William E. Schmidt The New York Times 29 February 1992 The next day, another bomb went off in London, by the Crown Prosecution Service office, injuring two more people and bringing the total injured to 31 in the space of just over 24 hours.https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1996/mar/04/terrorist-incidents 4 March 1996 Terrorist Incidents Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) This was one of dozens of bombs that detonated in London that year, the biggest of which was the Baltic Exchange bombing, killing three people and causing almost £1 billion worth of damage.http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dyndeaths.pl?querytype=date&day=10&month=04&year=1992 Sutton Index of Deaths Malcolm Sutton CAIN 10 April 1992 The IRA maintained this pressure, bombing mainland Britain and especially the city of London as much as possible until the ceasefire of 1994.http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch92.htm Chronology of the Conflict 1992 Dr Martin Melaugh CAIN http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch93.htm CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1993 Dr Martin Melaugh CAIN http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch94.htm Chronology of the Conflict 1994 Dr Martin Melaugh CAIN See also Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1992–1999) Victoria station and Paddington station bombings Cannon Street train bombing References collapsed London Category:1992 explosions Category:1992 in London Category:Terrorist incidents in London in the 1990s Category:Provisional IRA bombings in London Category:Car and truck bombings in London Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in 1992 Category:Attacks in Europe in the 1990s Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in London Category:1992 crimes in the United Kingdom Category:February 1992 in the United Kingdom Category:History of the London Borough of Southwark Category:20th century in the London Borough of Southwark Category:Building bombings in London