The 1993 Camden Town bombing occurred on 27 February 1993, when a bomb exploded in

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High Street, injuring 18 people. The

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was responsible, planting the explosive in a litter bin and targeting people on the busiest day of the week, Saturday, after midday. One of the injured was Swedish tourist Jenny Erikson, 22. The IRA gave a coded telephone warning that a bomb was planted at a

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fast food store in the north end of High Street, near

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. Police unknowingly moved people towards the bomb's path in the south end 400 yards away.

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chief Bernard Luckhurst said the misleading warnings of the bomb were "clearly designed" to kill or injure as many as it could. Earlier the IRA sent a warning about a bomb in Oxford Street, which also had to be evacuated by police. The attack occurred a day after the

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