IRA Honey Trap killings | |
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Part of the Troubles | |
Location | Antrim Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Coordinates | 54°36′40″N 5°55′56″W / 54.611111°N 5.932222°W |
Date | 23 March 1973 21:00 GMT |
Attack type | shooting |
Weapons | Thompson submachine gun, pistol |
Deaths | 3 off-duty British soldiers |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | Provisional IRA Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade |
The Provisional IRA Honey Trap killings occurred on 23 March 1973. Volunteers from the Provisional IRA's (IRA) Belfast Brigade shot dead three off-duty soldiers from the British Army who had been lured to a house by two females on the Antrim Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A fourth soldier survived the shooting.[1][2]