1996: Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire
Two people are killed by an IRA bomb in the Docklands area of London in February 1996.
The half-tonne bomb was left in a small lorry about 80 metres from South Quay Station on the Docklands Light Railway, in the regenerated commercial district.
The bombing marks the end of a 17-month IRA ceasefire during which Irish, British and American leaders worked for a political solution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Eighteen months later the IRA agreed another ceasefire, and peace was finally negotiated in the Good Friday Agreement in May 1998.
This 大象传媒 News report was broadcast on 10 February 1996.