The Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC) speaking on behalf of all Loyalist paramilitary organisations, issued a statement which announced a ceasefire as from midnight on the 13 June 1996. But on Saturday 15 June 1996 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a bomb in Manchester, which destroyed a large part of the city centre and injured 200 people. The bomb was estimated to have contained one-and-a-half tonnes of home-made explosives. Although a warning of one hour and twenty minutes was received by a local television station injuries were still caused by the sheer scale of the explosion. In response to the Manchester bomb the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) announced that it was putting its members 'on alert'. Source: CAIN website http://cain.ulst.ac.uk