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The 1992 Manchester bombing was an attack by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reu ...
(IRA) on Thursday, 3 December 1992. Two bombs exploded, wounding 64 people and damaging several buildings in the city of
Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The ...
.


Bombing

The first bomb to explode was inside a car that was parked at Parsonage Gardens in the commercial district of the city. The car bomb was behind a
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store () and exploded at 8:31 am, injuring six people. The second bomb exploded on Cateaton Street between a market and
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() at 10:09 am, wounding 58 people and damaging many buildings. The impact smashed the face of the cathedral clock and its
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windows. The cathedral provided refuge to hundreds of people who moved out of
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.


Aftermath

A phone call was made after the bombings, claiming more devices were in the city, forcing the police to evacuate the entire city centre of shoppers and tell others to remain indoors. No other bombs were found. The damage was estimated to have been to the value of £10 million (equivalent to about £19 million in 2017).


Perpetrators

The day after the bombing, the Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the act, which was part of their wider bombing campaign throughout the 1990s in England. Four years later, they detonated another, much more powerful,
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in Manchester.


See also

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Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1992–1999) This is a chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), from 1992 to 1999. 1992 January–February *1 January 1992: **a gun battle occurred between British troops and an IRA unit at the Royal Ulster Constabulary ...


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