The World - News from Aug. 4, 1989
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A man assembling a bomb in a West London hotel blew himself up, police said. The explosion tore through the small five-story Beverley House hotel in Paddington, blasting a hole in the roof and starting a fire but causing no other casualties. Anti-terrorist squad Commander George Churchill-Coleman told reporters, “It (the blast) was caused by some form of improvised explosive device.” Churchill-Coleman ruled out an Irish connection after detectives established that the dead man was from the Middle East. Security forces are on the alert ahead of the 20th anniversary of the dispatch of British troops to Northern Ireland, where guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army are fighting to end British rule.
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