The Manchester City Centre bombing was a terrorist attack in Manchester, England by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
It occurred at 11:20 a.m. on Saturday 15 June 1996, when the PIRA detonated a bomb containing 1500 kg of explosives in a van on Corporation Street, near the junction with Market Street. This was the largest IRA bomb ever detonated in Great Britain. Although warnings received in the previous hour had allowed the evacuation of the area, 206 people were recorded by the ambulance service as having been injured, mainly by falling glass and building debris.
A large area of the city centre was devastated, and over 50,000 square metres of retail space and 25,000 square metres of office space subsequently had to be rebuilt. Since then, the city centre has undergone extensive rejuvenation, along with the more general efforts to regenerate previously degenerated areas of the wider city, such as Hulme and Salford.
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