Italian authorities said Zaghba had been stopped and questioned in Italy but had not been charged with any crime. Over three successive weekends between 17 and 30 April 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated respectively in Brixton in South London at Brick Lane, Spitalfields, in the East End and at The Admiral Duncan pub in Soho in the West End. Tributes poured in for the brave police officer who was killed by a knife-wielding terrorist at Westminster today as the.
Police have named the attackers as Khurum Butt, 27, who had been known for his extremist views 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, also known as Rachid Elkhdar and Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian national of Moroccan descent who was reportedly working in a London restaurant. The 1999 London nail bombings were a series of bomb explosions in London, England. Published: 12:55 EST, 22 March 2017 Updated: 17:40 EST, 22 March 2017. Omar Mateen, Terrorist Who Attacked Orlando Gay Club, Had Been Investigated by FBI Mateen was a ‘known quantity’ to federal law enforcement before he killed 53 people in the worst mass shooting in U.S. Five families of missing individuals after London terror attacks wait in agony for two days for newsĪt least two of the men were known to British intelligence and law-enforcement officials, raising questions about whether anything could have been done to prevent the assault.Spanish man missing in London after using his skateboard against jihadist stabbing woman.The pub is in Old Compton Street, at the heart of Londons gay community. The bar was packed with drinkers at the start of the bank holiday weekend. The bomb went off in the Admiral Duncan pub, in Soho, just after 1830. A nail bomb ripped through a gay bar in Soho tonight, killing at least 2 people and wounding 73, and leaving the city on edge after two other bombings this month, in minority neighborhoods. Canadian among the seven dead in London terror attack, Justin Trudeau says Two people have been killed and at least 30 injured in the third nail-bomb attack in London in two weeks.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.