![]() ![]() ![]() Ten days later they killed Tory MP Ian Gow Previous republican bombings After this attack the IRA released a statement which read "While the British government persists in its continued occupation of the north of Ireland the IRA will persist in attacking the British government and its forces in England." On 30 July 1990 the IRA detonated a large bomb at the London Stock Exchange causing massive damage but no injuries. Less than three weeks before the Lichfield attack the IRA detonated another bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sergeant Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers. Five days later on 25 February 1990, another recruitment office was bombed, this time in Halifax, West Yorkshire. On 20 February 1990 the IRA bombed a British military recruitment office in Leicester, England, where two people were injured in the attack. On 18 November 1989 two British soldiers were wounded when an IRA car bomb exploded at a British Army barracks in Colchester, England. In September 1989 eleven Royal Marines were killed and 22 others injured when the IRA bombed their barracks in Deal, Kent, England. ![]() One soldier, Lance Corporal Michael Robbins, was killed, and nine others were injured. ![]() The two storey building containing the single men's quarters was completely destroyed. On 1 August 1988 the first Provisional IRA bomb on the UK mainland in four years was set off by a timer device at the British Army base at the Inglis Barracks in Mill Hill, North London. On the 13 July 1988, nine British soldiers were injured when the IRA detonated two bombs at a British military barracks in Duisburg, Germany. In May 1988 they killed three members of the RAF in attacks in the Netherlands. The IRA had stepped up their campaign against British military, economic and transport targets outside of Northern Ireland in the late 1980s. ![]()
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