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.
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- When
- 5 Jan 1976
- Where
- County Armagh
- Era
- Contemporary
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Text from the Wikipedia article Kingsmill massacre, CC BY-SA 4.0