Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing

Quand

4 févr. 1974

Type

Attentat terroriste

Coordonnées

53.74° N, 1.67° W

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, M62 coach bombing.

Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing; on 8 February the toll reaches 12 with the death in hospital of an 18-year-old soldier seriously injured in the bombing.

1974 IRA attack in northern England

On 4 February 1974, a 25-pound bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in a coach on the M62 motorway in northern England exploded, killing twelve people and injuring thirty-eight others aboard the vehicle. The IRA hid the bomb inside a luggage locker of the coach, which was carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members.

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