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1973 Coleraine bombings — Wikipedia (en)

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The 1973 Coleraine bombings took place on 12 June 1973 when the Provisional IRA detonated two car bombs in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The first bomb exploded at 3:00 pm on Railway Road, killing six people and injuring 33; several lost limbs. A second bomb that exploded five minutes later at Hanover Place added to the panic and confusion in the area. It did not cause any injuries. The IRA had sent a warning for the second bomb and said it had mistakenly given the wrong location for the first. As the six victims had all been Protestant, the bombings brought about a violent backlash from loyalist paramilitaries, who swiftly retaliated by unleashing a series of sectarian killings of Catholics that culminated in the double killing of Senator Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews on 26 June. Sinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey, brother of Dominic McGlinchey, later INLA Chief of Staff, was convicted of planting the bomb and spent 18 years in prison. He was elected mayor of Limavady Borough Council in 2011. In his book Years of Darkness: The Troubles Remembered, academic Gordon Gillespie described the attacks as "a forgotten massacre" of the Troubles.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «1973 Coleraine bombings» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Coleraine_bombings
Wikidata Q4575520: «Provision IRA bombing in Coleraine in 1973» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4575520
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