London Stock Exchange bombing

London Stock Exchange bombing
Part of the Troubles
The Stock Exchange Tower in 1983
Location	Stock Exchange Tower, London, United Kingdom
Date	20 July 1990 08:49 (UTC)
Target	London Stock Exchange
Attack type	Bomb
Deaths	0
Injured	0
Perpetrator	Provisional Irish Republican Army

The London Stock Exchange bombing occurred on the morning of 20 July 1990 with the explosion of a 5 to 10 lb (2.3 to 4.5 kg) bomb of high explosives inside the London Stock Exchange building in the City of London, England, planted by the Provisional IRA. The building and surroundings were evacuated after the IRA gave a telephone warning 40 minutes prior to the explosion, and thus nobody was wounded. But the bomb's strength blew a 10-foot hole inside the Stock Exchange Tower, and caused massive damage to the visitors' gallery on the first floor. The bomb was placed in the men's toilets behind the gallery.^[1] The gallery and public viewing area was forced to close in 1992.