Harrods bombing

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The same store was the target of a much smaller IRA bomb in 1993.

1983 bombing

The bomb contained between 25 and of explosives and was left in a 1972 blue Austin 1300 GT four door saloon with a black vinyl roof, registration KFP 252K. It was parked outside the side entrance of Harrods, on Hans Crescent, and set to be detonated by a timer.

At 12:44, a man using an IRA codeword phoned the central London branch of the Samaritans. At about 13:21, four police officers in a car, a dog handler, and an officer on foot approached the car when...
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