What the records say
- When
- 1972
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 54.50° N, 6.50° W
- Description
- 1972 killings in Northern Ireland
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the region its description names, Northern Ireland.
Pitchfork murders
1972 killings in Northern Ireland
The killings of Michael Naan and Andrew Murray, better known as the Pitchfork murders, was the stabbing of two Catholic civilians, Michael Naan and Andrew Joseph Murray in October 1972, by two British Army soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
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- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Pitchfork murders, a civil rights activist Michael Naan and a laborer Andrew James Murray are killed after being stabbed to death by two British soldiers”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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