Terrorist attack

Shankill Road bombing

23 Oct 1993 · 54.60° N, 5.95° W

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When
23 Oct 1993
Kind
Terrorist attack
Coordinates
54.60° N, 5.95° W

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Summary

Shankill Road bombing – Ten people were killed when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded at a fish shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast

Shankill Road bombing

1993 IRA attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Shankill Road bombing was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 23 October 1993 and is one of the most well-known incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The IRA aimed to assassinate the leadership of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA), supposedly attending a meeting above Frizzell's fish shop on the Shankill Road, Belfast.

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