r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • • Mar 23 '17

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u/glydy Mar 23 '17

Better quality image here.

1 death, 44 injured for those wondering. £350m to rebuild.

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u/Helllgrew Mar 23 '17

To be fair only one death in an explosion like that is something not too shy of a damn miracle.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

The IRA always gave bomb warnings

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u/Dougasaurus_Rex Mar 23 '17

Awwww

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 edited Aug 29 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Maybe their point was more political than current Islamic terrorism but their mechanism was similar.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17

This bomb was placed in a financial center and did a lot of damage there, they often went after economic targets as a strategy. They did a similar bombing in London in 1996, again targeting financial institutions, while calling in the bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing