The bombings
30 April 1999: Soho
30 April 1999: The third
bomb exploded in Soho
at 6.37pm outside the Admiral Duncan pub.
Three people are killed and
65 injured by the blast.
At the scene rescue workers
helped the many wounded to ambulances.
No warning was given for
the blast, Scotland Yard's chief said.
One witness described the
scene as "absolute carnage".
The injured were taken to
four London hospitals by more than 20 ambulances.
24 April 1999: Brick Lane
24 April 1999: A nail bomb
exploded in Brixton injuring six people.
It detonated in a car after
a motorist discovered the device and
put it there intending to take
it to a police station.
17 April 1999: Brixton
17 April 1999: The first
bomb exploded in Brixton injuring 39 people.
The victims included a
police officer and two children - one of the children
has a nail
embedded in its brain.
A CAT scan from Great Ormond Street
Children's Hospital shows the head of a 23-month-old toddler injured in
the nail bomb explosion in Brixton. A four-inch nail was embedded in his
brain after it went through his left temple. Doctors at the hospital
expected the youngster to make a full recovery and to have only a faint
scar on his left temple to show for his ordeal.
