The La Mon restaurant bombing was an incendiary bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 17 February 1978. The target was a hotel/restaurant at Gransha (near Belfast) in County Down, Northern Ireland. There was a total of 450 diners, hotel staff and guests inside the building. The IRA unit who planted the bomb tried to send warnings by telephone, but was unable to do so until nine minutes before the blast. Twelve people were killed and thirty were injured in the attack which has been described as "one of the worst atrocities" in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.
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