What the records say
- When
- 31 Jul 1975
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 54.26° N, 6.32° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Miami Showband killings.
Summary
Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband and two terrorists were killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as the band returned home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.
Miami Showband killings
1975 mass murder in Northern Ireland
Five people, including three members of The Miami Showband, were killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, on 31 July 1975 on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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