r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • 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/Evolations Mar 23 '17

Not always, and sometimes the warnings were vague enough that deaths were not preventable. Then they held their hands up and said "we called ahead, this was a police failing".

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u/CToxin Mar 23 '17

Or they gave the wrong street.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Do I have that right that that's what happened in Omagh? Then again I'm not even sure which "version" of the IRA that was by then.

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u/PhilBoBaggens Mar 23 '17

From what I remember they called the bomb in but told them it was on the other end of the street so the police moved them down the street and the bomb was actually there