1975 Piccadilly bombing

1975 Piccadilly bombing
Part of the Troubles
Aftermath of the bombing
Location	Piccadilly, London
Date	9 October 1975 21:00 (GMT)
Target	Ritz Hotel London
Attack type	Time Bomb
Weapons	gelignite bomb
Deaths	1
Injured	20
Perpetrators	Provisional IRA

On Thursday 9 October 1975, a bomb attack just outside Green Park Underground station in the City of Westminster, London, left one man dead and injured 20 others. The attack was carried out by volunteers from the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. The attack occurred during a period of heightened activity by the IRA in England and in particular London and surrounding areas, since the Caterham Arms pub bombing two months earlier in August 1975.^[1]