Honourable Artillery Company bombing

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 wounded in the blast. All of them suffered minor injuries.[2] At the time the hall was hired for a 21st birthday party of a Cambridge law student,[3] on most other Saturdays the bar is full of Territorial Army (TA) reserve soldiers.[2] 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]

Honourable Artillery Company bombing
Part of the Troubles
Armoury House, the building where the bomb occurred
LocationSt Luke's, London, United Kingdom
Date9 June 1990 (UTC)
Attack type
Time bomb
Deaths0
Injured19
PerpetratorProvisional Irish Republican Army

See also

References

  1. AP. "Bombs Injure 17 in London And Off-Duty Ulster Soldier".
  2. "LONDON BARRACKS BOMB INJURES 17 CIVILIANS". 11 June 1990 via www.washingtonpost.com.
  3. "TA bomb may have been set during party". HeraldScotland.
  4. Powell, Gary (15 January 2017). Death Diary: A Year of London Murder, Execution, Terrorism and Treason. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445665030 via Google Books.

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