Carlton Tower and Portman Hotel shootings

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Carlton Tower and Portman Hotel Shootings
Part of The Troubles
The Jumeirah Carlton Tower, previously just the Carlton Tower hotel which the IRA fired shots at
Location	Portman Square, London & Cadogan Place, Knightsbridge, London, England
Date	19 January 1975
Attack type	shooting
Weapons	Sten & M1 carbine
Deaths	0
Injured	12
Perpetrators	Provisional IRA

On 19 January 1975 the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang opened fire with automatic weapons on two hotels in London, England. Twelve people were injured by broken glass. The IRA carried out a similar attack a month before, and attacked one of the hotels again a few months after.

It was the first attack of 1975 carried out by the IRA unit, who had been responsible for the Woolwich pub bombing and Guildford pub bombings which resulted in the deaths of seven people (5 off-duty British soldiers and 2 civilians) a few months earlier.^[1]