The device exploded in Brick Lane , the centre of one of the capital ' s biggest Bangladeshi communities and a popular Saturday market . Surrounding buildings explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodetwo cars were severely damaged . Local people said rumours of bomb threats had been sweeping the Brick Lane area all week .
Material is added to this site on a regular basis - information on this page may change Since this was the most devastating day of violence in Belfast up to that time , and many of the injured suffered serious mutilation , the impact on public opinion was enormous , and many observers regarded it as a point at which PIRA [ Provisional Irish Republican Army ] put itself outside the pale of political negotiation . Flackes and Elliott ( 1994 ) Northern Ireland : A Political Directory 1968 - 1993 Many watching the television news reports were reduced to tears by horrifying pictures of firemen and rescue workers . . . scraping up the remains of human beings into plastic bags . . . Bardon ( 1992 ) A History of Ulster ' Bloody Friday ' is the name given to the events that occurred in Belfast on Friday 21 July 1972 . During the afternoon of ' Bloody Friday ' the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) planted and exploded 22 bombs which , in the space of 75 minutes , killed 9 people and seriously injured approximately 130 others . In addition to the bombs there were numerous hoax warnings about other explosive devices which added to the chaos in the streets that afternoon . Many people believe these hoax warnings were deliberately used to reduce the explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeof the security forces in dealing with the real bombs . As the quotes above make clear , the killing and maiming had a profound impact on most people in Northern Ireland . ' Bloody Friday ' also led to the decision by the British Government to implement ' Operation Motorman ' when , in the biggest British military operation since the 1956 Suez crisis , the British Army entered and ended the ' no - go ' areas of Belfast and Derry .
Despite evidence to the contrary , the British security forces asserted that a bomb had exploded prematurely while being handled by Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) members inside the pub , implying that the victims themselves were partly to blame . A report later found that the police ( Royal Ulster Constabulary ) were biased in favour of this view , and that this hindered their investigation . The victims ' relatives allege that the security forces deliberately spread disinformation to discredit the IRA . In 1977 , UVF member explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeCampbell was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the bombing and served fifteen years .
A child ' s terror as the ruthless IRA bombers strike , crystalises the anguish of the day of murder Youngest of the nine who died in the IRA holocaust - 14 year old Glynn Stephen Parker , of Belfast . Timetable of terror Between 2 . 10 and 3 . 15 on the afternoon of July 21 a total of 19 bombs exploded in various parts of Belfast . Nine people died in the explosions - seven civilians and two soldiers . The injured were - 77 women and girls and 53 men and boys . It was at first thought that 11 had died . This is the timetable of terror on this day of murderous , ruthless bombing of the civilian population : - 2 . 10 - Smithfield bus station . Explosion in strikeConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar left in an enclosed yard . Extensive damage to houses in nearby Samuel diedLife.Die.Unspecified. Many houses damaged . 2 . 16 - Brookvale Hotel , Brookvale Ave . , Antrim Road . Three men armed with a sub - machine gun planted a bomb in the building in a suitcase explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodehotel was wrecked and adjoining houses were damaged diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 23 - LMS Railway Station , York Road . injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedin a suitcase left on the platform . Extensive damage to the station interior and the roof was blown off diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 45 - Star Taxis , Crumlin Road . The explosion was in bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar beside the houses of the warders from the nearby Crumlin Road prison . ExplosionConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedblast wrecked the taxi offices and caused damages to the damageArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Damage. 2 . 48 - Oxford Street bus station damagedArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.DamageExplosion in a car which had been driven into the rear of the station . Extensive damage to the office block and superficial damage to adjoining property . Six people killed and nearly 40 injured .
Bologna , August 2 , 1980 . It was a hot Saturday morning , the first weekend of Italy ’ s traditional holiday month , and thousands of vacationers jostled their way to and from the trains in Bologna ’ s central railroad station . In the midst of that noisy crowd someone stopped midway between the second - class waiting room and the coffee bar , put down a heavy suitcase , and quickly left the station . The suitcase contained over forty pounds of explosives , perhaps stable nitroglycerine , connected to a timer . At exactly 10 : 25 AM it explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode, ripping through the crowd , tearing apart the reinforced concrete walls , and bringing the roof crashing down on hundreds of bodies and parts of bodies .
Byline : DON MALHIIRA bombers brought terror to the streets of the West Midlands in the 1970s . Last week republican terrorist Mick Murray was named as a ringleader of the gang behind the bombings of two pubs in Birmingham city centre on November 21 , 1974 . The blasts in the Tavern in the Town and the the Mulberry Bush killed 21 innocent people and injured more than 200 . Today , on the 30th anniversary of the pub bombings , we look at the other IRA men whobrought terror to the region during that fateful year . Together they were known as the Birmingham Nine and were convicted of carrying out 20 explosions in the run - up to the pub bombings . The nine men were jailed for a total of 260 years . The Birmingham Six - Hugh Callaghan , Patrick Hill , Gerard Hunter , Richard McIlkenny , William Power and John Walker - were jailed for the pub bombings , but later had their convictions quashed . One theory for the blasts is that they were intended to ' commemorate ' the death of IRA bomber James McDade . The 28 year - old , described by republicans as a ' Lieutenant of the Birmingham Battalion ' , accidentally blew himself up while attempting to destroy a Coventry telephone exchange a week before the pub bombings . On the afternoon of November 21 , with emotions running high , all police leave was cancelled and an extra 1 , 300 officers were drafted in to guard his coffin as it was driven to Coventry airport and flown to Ireland . But hours after the funeral procession , two bombs exploded in two packed Birmingham city centre pubs . It bombingsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodebeen claimed that a ' link man ' ordered the revenge attacks in an impulsive grief - stricken reaction to McDade ' s death - without the blessing of IRA chiefs in Belfast . The secret figure , whose identity has never been revealed , is believed to have then left for Ireland to attend the funeral and has remained there ever since . Another theory is that the bombings were revenge attacks for convictedJustice.Convict.UnspecifiedLoyalist Dublin and Monaghan bombings six months earlier . Thirty four people died in the Ulster Volunteer Force attacks jailedJustice.ArrestJailDetain.Unspecifiedlabelled the worst atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles . It has been claimed the British security forces colluded with the loyalist terrorists in the bombings . Mick Murray was one of three men arrested along with the Birmingham Six by West Midlands Police in the immediate aftermath of the pub blasts . It has been claimed that Murray , who died in 1999 , helped choose the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town as targets . And he was named as being one of the bomb - makers who transported the explosives to the city centre before handing them to the men who planted them . But , it is claimed Murray then botched a telephone warning made to our sister newspaper The Birmingham Post . It was supposed to give half an hour for the pubs to be cleared . But his warning , using the codeword Double X , came explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodesix minutes before the first explosion - and did not name either pub . Murray admitted being a member of the IRA after his arrest . But West Midlands Police never charged him with murder and he served 12 years in jail for conspiracy to cause explosions . In 1990 his name was mentioned in a report handed to the Government by the Who Bombed Birmingham ? Granada TV programme . The show was based on a book by campaigning MP , Chris Mullin , who said he met the real bombers , but could not reveal their identity . In another Parliamentary report , the MP stated the programme - makers had also passed a Special Branch document containing details of interviews with an IRAman to the Home Office . The unnamed terrorist had been arrested in November 1975 - six months after the trial and conviction of the Birmingham Six . Mr Mullin claimed the terrorist gave police accurate information including the names of some of those whom he said were responsible for the bombs . Crucially , the papers contained the remark : ' So - and - so told me he put one of the bombs in the pub . ' AlongwithMurrayand the Birmingham Six two other men - including James Kelly - were arrested in the immediate aftermath of the carnage . Kelly was found guilty of possessing explosives and bizarrely claimed he was a spy who infiltrated the IRA so he could later give help to the police . The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the pub bombings . They were all Belfast born but had lived in Brum since the 1960s . Five of them had left the city on the early evening of November 21 servedJustice.ChargeIndict.UnspecifiedNew Street Station - hours before the explosions - to travel to Belfast to attend McDade ' s funeral . They were seen off by Callaghan . The five were arrested at Heysham that evening and Callaghan was taken into custody the next day . All the men were interrogated by Birmingham CID and claimed at trial they were beaten , threatened and forced to sign statements written by the police over three days of questioning . Their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in March1991and their case is seen as one of the biggest miscarriages arrestedJustice.ArrestJailDetain.Unspecifiedjustice in British legal history . Terrorist activity was rife convictionJustice.Convict.Unspecifiedthe Midlands during the 1970sand police arrested scores of IRA members in the months following the bombings . But the IRA unit which gained particular notoriety was the Birmingham Nine . They were responsible for 20 of the 31 bomb blasts in Birmingham and parts of the West Midlands between August 1973 and August 1974 . Patrick Guilfoyle , Martin Coughlan , Gerard Young , Joseph Duffy , Michael Murray arrestedJustice.ArrestJailDetain.UnspecifiedAnthony Madigan , Joseph Ashe , Gerald Small and Stephen Blake conducted the biggest wave of bombings in the region since the Second World War . Coughlan and Young were said to be the leading figures in the campaign . sentencedJustice.Sentence.Unspecifiedwas born in Dublin and came to Birmingham in 1956 . He rented a house in Chelmsley Wood with his wife and had three children . It is believed he was the brains behind the campaign of terror which began in Birmingham and spread to Manchester . Guilfoyle never quite made the grade of bomber . He caused an explosion that badly injured one of his IRA colleagues because he was smoking a cigarette while making a bomb . Northern Ireland historian David McVea said : ' Many interrogatedJustice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecifiedtheories have been put forward as to who actually carried out the bombings , but it is unlikely that the true culprits will ever be identified . ' The IRA was very protective of its members at the time , people moved in and out of the different cells constantly . ' As well as the killing of so many innocent people the real tragedy is the wrongful jailing of the Birmingham Six . ' The IRA was able to use the injustice against these men to their advantage for years . ' CAPTION ( S ) : SLAUGHTERED : blastsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeare taken away from the pub bombings ; DEVASTATED : wreckage outside the Tavern in the Town ; DEAD : James McDade ; TRIBUTE : memorial to the victims
Former chief of Amn Lashkar ( peace committee ) in Lower Dir , Malak Khan Badshah , remained unhurt while his son and a security guard were injured when a roadside improvised explosive device ( IED ) exploded injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedhis vehicle at Barjo Gat area of Maidan in explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodejurisdiction of Lal Qila police station here on Thursday , police and residents said .
The bomb was placed at the entrance to the building and exploded on a Friday afternoon , during a busy lunchtime period . More than 300 people were eating in the neighbouring El Tobogan restaurant at the time of the explosion , two of whom were among the dead . The explosion caused significant damage to nearby buildings , shattering the windows of the nearby General Directorate of Security , while two cars parked nearby were totally destroyed . The bomb caused part of the Rolando Cafe ' s ceiling to collapse and guests staying in a pension above were injured due to falling through the gaps in the placedArtifactExistence.ManufactureAssemble.Unspecified. The police immediately arrived and cordoned explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodethe scene .