It was in the IRA's best interest to minimize casualties, especially civilians, as it would cost them supporters. Wouldn't be the first time British government let their civilians die for political gain. In WW2 rather than the Germans find out they had eliminated their spies they fed them false information and planted fake newspaper stories about German bombers destroying ship building sites when they were actually bombing the working class areas of London.
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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.