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Irish police believe that a “high-grade” bomb may have gone off prematurely on a Dublin street Sunday night because a man forgot to change his clocks for Daylight Savings Time, according to U.K. reports.

“It would appear that the bomber got his timings wrong,” a police source told the Mirror. “It could be a case where he didn’t put his watch forward on Sunday and the timer went off too soon.”

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Although much of Canada lost an hour on March 9, the U.K. and Ireland switched to “summer time” early Sunday morning, at 1 a.m.

The explosion rocked Ireland’s capital at about 11 p.m. Sunday night.

Police are hunting for a man who fled the scene “dripping in blood” after a bomb exploded in his face while he was apparently trying to plant it under a Volvo SUV in the densely populated New Street and Clanbrassil Street area.

“His entire face was covered in what I thought was blood, but now know were severe burns,” a witness told the Irish Examiner. “He was running down the street with his hands up to his face screaming ‘please help me, please help me.’ ”