Terrorist attack

1996 Manchester bombing

15 Jun 1996 · 53.48° N, 2.24° W

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When
15 Jun 1996
Kind
Terrorist attack
Coordinates
53.48° N, 2.24° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1996 Manchester bombing.

1996 Manchester bombing

Provisional IRA attack in England

On 15 June 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester, England. It was the biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since the Second World War.

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