UK: MANCHESTER: DEVASTATION CAUSED BY BOMB BLAST IN CITY CENTRE
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- (16 Jun 1996) English/Nat
The full scale of the devastation caused by the Manchester bomb blast has become clear after police Sunday took the first camera crews to the heart of the explosion.
Wrecked buildings, rubble and shattered glass are spread over a wide area in the centre of the northern English city.
More than 200 people were injured in the blast, 16 remain in hospital.
Police, who blame the I-R-A for the attack, have reopened some of the city centre to the public.
British officials are saying this is the work of the I-R-A.
Part of Manchester's central shopping area still remains cordoned off to the public.
Over 200 people were injured in the blast which also caused structural damage to the shopping centre, shattered windows half a mile away and set off several small fires.
Police are searching through the wreckage and rubble for clues to the bombers in an operation expected to last several days.
An accurate assessment of the damage won't be made for several days, but it is expected to run into hundreds of (m) millions of U-S dollars.
Saturday would have been one of the busiest days of the year for the city centre shops of Manchester, which ranks second only to London's Oxford Street in retail sales.
The usual weekend crowds were set to be swelled by children seeking last-minute Father's Day presents and an influx of 30-thousand Euro 96 soccer fans.
The police believe the I-R-A deliberately targetted innocent civilians.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"You can imagine on a fine, bright, June morning, there was tens of thousands of people in this area. This is a very busy shopping area of Manchester and it would be packed. The street as you can see there -- the pavements would be absolutely thronged with people. Many, many visitors to the city at this time of year. It was a great credit to everyone concerned that we managed to clear as larger area as we did. And how people weren't killed was an absolute miracle."
SUPERCAPTION: Colin Phillips, Assistant Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police
Engineers are assessing whether some buildings will have to be torn down as part of a huge rebuilding operation.
A member of Britain's Royal family -- the Duchess of Kent -- visited the injured in hospital.
SOUNDBITE:
"Some of them are obviously frightened. They have been through a horrid experience (inaudible) but they are stoic and they are brave."
SUPERCAPTION: Duchess of Kent
Although the bombing bears all the hallmarks of the I-R-A, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The blast followed a telephone warning from a man with an Irish accent -- British media say it included a recognised I-R-A code word.
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I remember talking to Manc's guy and him telling me that "This was the best thing to happen to the centre of Manchester because no one died and Manchester got a new shopping centre" Not entirely sure I agree with him on that.
A lot of people agree with that, meant the government were forced to send money to Manchester when they wouldn’t have beforehand
@@OkayMate01 lmao, the irony. Man, these IRA folk must be great people influencing a new shopping center in Manchester 🙃
@@Dragoneer I can’t tell if you’re saying I’m wrong or not?
I got plenty of cash in hand work from this.
Looked shit Manchester until the IRA refurbishment work
imagine exploding such a massive ass bomb (1300kg) and nobody dying!
The ira gave warning that they where going to detonate and gave them time to get all the innocent people out. It was a show of how the ira could damage the english if they really wanted too
If the IRA had’ve killed that many people they would have lost support from their own. They were already despised by a good few Irish citizens ironically, they had to keep up the sympathy act whilst also bringing across a strong message…
@@Dragoneer also they’d be killing some of their own since Manchester has a large irish population
My mother was evacuated in the time up to the bombing, she walked past the truck. It still affects her to this day. If the bomb whent off earlier there could have been thousands of deaths.
All this could have been prevented
If they gave Northern Ireland back
Eternal 85 I was referring to the British purposefully ignoring bomb threats hoping it resulted in as many innocent lives lost as possible all to take worldwide support away from the IRA. I do agree with you. Give ireland back to the Irish!
@@danielofinan5071 But you know why they haven't just "given it back" yeah? It's not because Britain really badly wants to keep Northern Ireland.
The majority of people in Northern Ireland still want to be part of the UK. If the UK just left all those people out on their arse, you can take the number of bombs the IRA set in Britain, and multiply it. To give an idea of how big the backlash would be.
@Colin Grusczynski Dont call me a dipshit on youtube when we both know you’d never say it to my face keyboard warrior. And what because nobody died This particular time you’re gonna sit there and tell me the British didn’t ignore IRA Call ins hoping to results in support stripped from them?
@Colin Grusczynski and look at your surname and then look at my very gaelic name. Dont try and teach me about irish history.
When it comes to bombing England, the IRA did not mess about, people think its bad now but jeez the 70's all the way til the 90's we were getting bomb on regular occasions by these guys from London to Manchester (but mostly London).
The bombing done against Britain by the Nazis was far worse than anything the provos threw at the UK. There is absolutely no comparison between the destruction and death caused.
I had gout that day and couldn't get into town, glad I couldn't get there
Insurance
Beckett
Tiocfaidh ar la
My girlfriend died there 💔
There were no casulties in the attack
ERrm nobody died
lmao, nice try dude, no casualties
Liar
What a weirdo