assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Quando

27 de ago. de 1979

Tipo

Assassinato

Mortes

4

Coordenadas

54.47° N, 8.45° W

Description

1979 bomb attack in Dublin, Ireland

1979 bomb attack in Mullaghmore, Ireland

Lord Mountbatten, a retired British statesman and cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 off the coast of Mullaghmore, Ireland. Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), planted a bomb on Mountbatten's boat, the cabin cruiser Shadow V, during Mountbatten's annual summer trip to Classiebawn Castle, his house on the Mullaghmore Peninsu…

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