The
Docklands bombing (also known as the
Canary Wharf bombing or
South Quay bombing) occurred on 9 February 1996, when the
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a
truck bomb in
Canary Wharf, one of
London's two main financial districts. It brought an end to the IRA's seventeen-month ceasefire. Although the IRA had sent warnings 90 minutes beforehand, two people were killed and the bomb caused an estimated £100 million worth of damage.