Bleak remembrance for Canary Wharf bombing 25th anniversary
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Survivors have been marking the 25th anniversary of the February IRA bombing of Canary Wharf with a bleak remembrance for the two men killed and 100 other people badly injured.
Wreaths were laid at the spot in South Quay where a lorry packed with Libyan-supplied semtex exploded, wrecking the Midland Bank tower.
The blast shattered a news kiosk where Inam Bashir and John Jefferies were killed.
Many others were badly injured in the bank headquarters and in nearby shops as well as Millwall’s Barkantine Estate which took the full force of the explosion, with 42 people still living with life-changing injuries 25 years on.
Victims of the IRA London Docklands bombing have vowed to keep fighting for compensation as they mark the 25th anniversary of the tragic blast. A small number of socially-distanced survivors released doves at the spot as they commemorated the February 1996 bombing which killed two people and injured others. Jonathan Ganesh, president of the Docklands Victims Association, organised Sunday’s ceremony, which took place ahead of the anniversary on.
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