Top of the Hill bar shooting

Top of the Hill bar shooting
Part of The Troubles
Annie's Bar (left) in 2009
Top of the Hill bar shooting is located in Northern Ireland
Top of the Hill bar shooting
Top of the Hill bar shooting (Northern Ireland)
LocationStrabane Old Road, Derry, Northern Ireland
Date20 December 1972
10:30 PM
TargetIrish Catholics
Attack type
Mass shooting, massacre
WeaponsSterling submachine gun
Deaths5
Injured4
PerpetratorUlster Defence Association

The Top of the Hill bar shooting, or Annie's Bar massacre,[1] was a mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland on 20 December 1972, during the Troubles. Five civilians were killed when members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, opened fire on the customers in a pub frequented by Catholics.[2]

  1. ^ McKinney, Seamus (21 December 2017). "Calls for Annie's Bar massacre investigation to be re-opened". The Irish News. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  2. ^ "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 June 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.