IRA Claims Responsibility for Blast That Killed 3, Vows More Violence
The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility Saturday for a bombing in London’s financial district that killed three people and left more than 90 injured. And it promised more attacks until British troops withdraw from Northern Ireland.
Friday night’s business district bombing--and a second suspected IRA bombing at a major traffic junction early Saturday--came on the heels of the Conservative Party’s surprise victory in Thursday’s elections.
The attacks immediately put Northern Ireland on Prime Minister John Major’s political agenda.
The financial district bomb, planted in a van, contained more than 100 pounds of explosives and was probably the biggest bomb ever detonated by terrorists on the British mainland, police said.
In the financial district bombing, the victims were either trapped in damaged buildings or hit by flying debris. The dead were a 15-year-old girl, whose 7-year-old sister was injured; a man in his 20s, and a third person whose body was discovered Saturday in the wreckage.
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