What the records say
- When
- 8 Nov 1987
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 54.34° N, 7.63° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Remembrance Day bombing.
Remembrance Day bombing
1987 Provisional IRA terror attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
The Remembrance Day bombing took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial (cenotaph) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to commemorate British military war dead. Eleven people were initially killed, many of them elderly.
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