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Sussex Arms pub bombing

Provisional IRA attack on London

On 12 October 1992, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb that had been planted in the gents' toilets in the Sussex Arms pub in Upper St Martins Lane near Long Acre, London, killing a man and injuring seven other people.

A telephone call to a radio station was made at 1:21 pm, nine minutes before the bomb exploded, saying a bomb had been placed "in the Leicester Square area"; a tourist-frequented spot nearby.

The bomb exploded at 1:30pm, injuring eight people. One of the wounded – thirty-year-old nurse David Heffer – died from his injuries in hospital. It was the eighth IRA bomb in London in a six-day period.

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