FATHER'S DAY BOMB ; In the sun, they pulled glass from the backs of the victims 3 Edition

The IRA phoned a coded warning just 80 minutes before the 11.20am blast. Police Chief Superintendent Peter Harris said: "If it had gone off without warning it would have been carnage." And ambulance press officer Brian Johnson said: ""If there had been people in the immediate are...

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Published inSunday mirror (London, England : 1963)
Main Author STEPHEN WHITE, ALAN RIMMER, JOHN KELLY, TERRY O'HANLON, KIM SENGUPTA, FIONA WHITTY, CAROLINE SUTTON, SEAN O'BRIEN
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) MGN Ltd 16.06.1996
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Summary:The IRA phoned a coded warning just 80 minutes before the 11.20am blast. Police Chief Superintendent Peter Harris said: "If it had gone off without warning it would have been carnage." And ambulance press officer Brian Johnson said: ""If there had been people in the immediate area we would have been talking about carnage - many hundreds would have died. We have been very, very lucky." Many of the casualties went to nearby Victoria Station, where pools of blood gathered on the tiled floor of an emergency first aid centre. One man's shirt was stained down the back with his own blood. A three-inch shard of glass stuck out of his neck. MOTHER'S DAY BOMB 1993 [Tim Parry]; FATHER'S DAY BOMB 1996 Baby victim; NIGHTMARE: A massive blast, a plume of smoke (left)...then pain and terror (above); NIGHTMARE: Blood poured from victims cut by flying glass from store windows