LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Man dies in Paddington bomb blast

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

4 Aug 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:44

Description

Oni Bhattacharya reports on a bomb blast and resulting fire at the Beverley House Hotel in Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London, where a man died. Detectives believe the man who died was a terrorist involved in an accident, he was later named as Moustapha Maleh and was killed by his own bomb. The intended target was believed to be author Salman Rushdie. Includes interviews with eyewitnesses on the blast and their evacuation; police spokesman, Stuart Goodwin; Commander George Churchill-Coleman, head of the Scotland Yard anti-terrorist squad.

Contributors

George Churchill-Coleman; Oni Bhattacharya; Stuart Goodwin

Keywords

Deaths; London; Fires; Terrorism; Police; Hotels; Bombs; Explosions; Salman Rushdie; Paddington; Beverley House Hotel; Sussex Gardens; Moustapha Maleh

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