Docklands bombing

Title

Docklands bombing

Genre

Interview

TX Date

10 Feb 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:01:01

Description

An explosion has destroyed an underground car park and injured up to a hundred people in Canary Wharf. The blast came just an hour after a phone call to the Irish television network RTE, using a recognised codeword, said the IRA’s 17 month-old ceasefire was over. The bomb destroyed a six-storey building and shattered the windows surrounding the South Quay Station in the Docklands area. Helen (first name only) was at Canary Wharf when the explosion took place; she describes what she saw and heard.

Contributors

Helen ?

Keywords

London; Terrorism; IRA; Docklands; Explosions; Canary Wharf; South Quay

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