The Troubles in Magherafelt
- The Troubles in Magherafelt
A total of eleven people were killed in violence relating to the Northern Irish Troubles in the town of Magherafelt, County Londonderry. Nine were killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), one was killed by a non-specific republican group and another by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). However three of the IRA's victims were themselves members of the IRA, being killed by the premature explosion of their own bomb while travelling through Magherafelt. Of the others killed by the IRA, four were Protestant civilians. Three of them were killed in two separate car bomb explosions, and in both cases inadequate warning was given. The fourth Protestant civilian was shot because his firm was a contractor for the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). The IRA's other two victims were both Protestant members of the security forces, one from the RUC and the other from the Ulster Defence Regiment. Both were off duty when killed. The man killed by the UFF was a Sinn Fein councillor who was shot in his workplace. The man killed by the non specific republican group was a Catholic civilian.
References
* [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/ NI Conflict Archive on the Internet]
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