Soldier who survived IRA attack thanks first responders as he returns to scene

On This Day: 11 people killed by IRA bomb in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh

The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Saturday 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) Lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester, England. The biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since World War II,[2] it targeted the city's infrastructure and economy and caused devastating damage, estimated by insurers at £700 million (equivalent to £1.2 billion in 2016) – only surpassed by the 2001 Sept