Killings of Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose

When

27 May 1990

Kind

Event

Coordinates

51.20° N, 5.99° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Killings of Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose.

Mistaking them for two off duty British soldiers, the Provisional Irish Republican Army kill Australian tourists Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose in the southern Dutch town of Roermond.

Australian tourists murdered by the IRA

Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose were Australian tourists shot dead in Roermond, the Netherlands by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 May 1990, which stated it had mistaken them for off-duty British soldiers. The attack was part of an IRA campaign in Continental Europe.

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