On 21 July, they set off more than twenty bombs in just over an hour in Belfast city centre, including the bus and rail stations, a motorway bridge, a hotel, a bar and a taxi office. They killed nine people and injured 130. Seventy-seven of the victims were women and children. The horror was compounded by the panic of crowds rushing from one explosion into the path of the next. Parts of human bodies were scattered all over city streets.
