Woman says she was moments from death in IRA Manchester bombing

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Samantha Shaw was standing near the windows of a Manchester building seconds before the IRA bomb detonated in 1996, an attack that killed 22 people and injured over 200. She had stepped away moments before the blast shattered the glass where she had been standing, a near-miss she describes as coming within moments of death. The bombing remains one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Britain's history. Shaw's account adds a visceral detail to the tragedy, the random timing that separated survival from catastrophe by seconds.