2001 BBC bombing

At 12:30 am (0030 GMT) on Sunday 4 March 2001, the Real IRA, a dissident Irish republican group, detonated a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre within BBC Television Centre, on Wood Lane in the White City area of West London. BBC cameras caught the moment of the explosion and the resulting damage – which included numerous smashed windows in the front entrance – was seen as day broke. As the explosion happened just after midnight, some reports of the incident say that it happened on 3 March rather than 4 March.

2001 BBC bombing

At 12:30 am (0030 GMT) on Sunday 4 March 2001, the Real IRA, a dissident Irish republican group, detonated a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre within BBC Television Centre, on Wood Lane in the White City area of West London. BBC cameras caught the moment of the explosion and the resulting damage – which included numerous smashed windows in the front entrance – was seen as day broke. As the explosion happened just after midnight, some reports of the incident say that it happened on 3 March rather than 4 March.