Incident Date:
September 14, 1975
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown United Kingdom
Perpetrators: Provisional Irish Republican Army
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Mail Bomb)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Multinational Corporations)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 1 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: 09/14/1975: A letter bomb mailed from Dublin exploded in the London office of the Canadian-based company Alcan. The explosion slightly injured a secretary. The company had announced plans to build a plant in the Republic of Ireland two weeks before the incident.
References: 1) RAND
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. (1980). Trasnational Terrorism: Chronology of Events, 1968-1979. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 544."
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