IRA Bishopsgate Bomb Aftermath

Days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a main arterial road that travels north-south through London's financial area, City of London, bomb damaged stock goes on sale at reduced prices in a branch of menswear outfitters, Moss Bross at Liverpool Street Station. on 26th April 1993, in London, England. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged, with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m²) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Costs of repairing the damage was estimated at £350 million. It was possibly the (IRA's) most successful military tactic since the start of the Troubles. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)