What the records say
- When
- 4 Dec 1971
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 54.61° N, 5.93° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, McGurk's Bar bombing.
McGurk's Bar bombing
1971 pub bombing in Belfast, Northern Ireland
On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, detonated a bomb at McGurk's Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland, frequented by Irish Catholic nationalists. The explosion caused the building to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians—including two children—and wounding seventeen more. It was the deadliest attack in Belfast during the Troubles.
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