Newry customs bombing

Newry customs bombing
Part of the Troubles
Newry customs bombing is located in Northern Ireland
Newry customs bombing
Newry customs office
LocationNewry County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Date22 August 1972
TargetNewry customs office
Attack type
Time bomb
Deaths9 (6 civilians 3 IRA volunteers)
Injured20
PerpetratorProvisional IRA

On 22 August 1972 a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary group, detonated prematurely at a customs office in Newry. Three IRA members killed six civilians and themselves in the explosion. The event was one of the bloodiest of 1972, the deadliest year of the Troubles.[1][2]

  1. ^ "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1972". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  2. ^ "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2018.