BOMB EXPLODES ON LONDON STREET; NO ONE INJURED.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A bomb exploded in a trash bin on a busy west London West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with Heathrow Airport and many of thoroughfare early today, and suspicion immediately fell on the Irish Republican Army Irish Republican Army (IRA), nationalist organization devoted to the integration of Ireland as a complete and independent unit. Organized by Michael Collins from remnants of rebel units dispersed after the Easter Rebellion in 1916 (see Ireland), it was composed of . The device detonated without warning at 12:38 a.m. (4:38 p.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there Friday) at the entrance to a cemetery on Old Brompton Road Old Brompton Road is a street in South Kensington, London. It starts from South Kensington tube station and runs south-west, through a mainly residential area, until it reaches West Brompton and the area around Earl's Court tube station. , several hundred yards from a building with Ministry of Defense offices, said police superintendent Peter Rice. Rice said there were no reports of injuries. "It sounded like thunder," said Ulric Rudmalm, 22, who was working at nearby Finborough Arms pub. "It was raining at the time, so we thought that was what it was. I did not think anything of it until I saw the blue flashing lights from the police cars." Old Brompton Road is a bustling street connecting trendy South Kensington to Fulham areas, and its popular restaurants and bars were just beginning to empty when the device exploded. "The street was not crowded at the time and damage seems to be confined to be in childbed. See also: Confine to three motor cars and to windows in a building opposite the cemetery," said a police spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity. The defense ministry said "there is no indication whatsoever" that it had been targeted. The blast was also near a subway station and the Earl's Court Exhibition Center. The center has been a possible IRA Ira, in the Bible Ira (ī`rə), in the Bible. 1 Chief officer of David. 2, 3 Two of David's guard. IRA, abbreviation IRA. target in the past because it is the venue for the annual Royal Tournament, a military display held in the summer and attended by members of the royal family. A policeman at the scene, also speaking anonymously, said the device had been placed in a green bag with wheels. Officers cordoned off a two-square-mile area, and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in to search for other possible devices. About two hours after the explosion, police reopened Earl's Court Road, where huge traffic jams had formed. No group immediately claimed responsibility for planting the device, but the IRA has targeted London since it ended its 17-month cease-fire Feb. 9 with a massive bomb in the Docklands area that killed two people. |
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