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The Grand Hotel Bombing
The IRA tried to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in October 1984.
In October 1984, Margaret Thatcher survived a bomb attack on the hotel where she was staying on the south coast of England. Five people were killed and more than 30 others injured in the explosion, which was carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 2009, Lucy Williamson spoke to Michael Dobbs, who was a government official in the hotel at the time.
Photo: The Grand Hotel in Brighton after the IRA bombing (John Minihan/Express/Getty Images)
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