ISIS claims responsibility for deadly Manchester attack

Footage of the 1996 Manchester truck bombing by Ira.

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

The truth about the 1996 Manchester bombing - and the making of modern Manchester