Contemporary era · 1976

Kingsmill massacre

On 5 January 1976, near the village of Whitecross in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland, gunmen stopped a minibus carrying eleven Protestant workmen, lined them up alongside it and shot them. Only one victim survived, despite having been shot 18 times. A Catholic man on the minibus was allowed to go free. A group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force claimed responsibility.

Kingsmill massacre · Wikimedia Commons
When
5 Jan 1976
Where
County Armagh
Era
Contemporary

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