Shankill service held as tribute to bomb victims 50 years on

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Two adults and two babies were killed in a bomb in Belfast, a week after the McGurk's Bar explosion.

A memorial service has been held in Belfast for those killed and injured in an IRA bomb 50 years ago.

The attack on the Balmoral furniture showrooms on Shankill Road happened on 11 December 1971, days after a bombing in a nationalist part of the city. Two adults and two babies, one aged 17 months, the other a two-year-old were killed in the Shankill explosion.Representatives from the emergency services attended the Shankill serviceExactly a week earlier loyalist paramilitaries, the Ulster Volunteer Force , bombed McGurk's Bar in the nationalist New Lodge area, killing 15 people and injuring 17 others.

A vigil to mark that bombing was held last Saturday at a memorial in north Belfast to those who lost their lives.

 

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