The family of a five-month-old baby killed by a bomb in Co Tyrone 50 years ago have urged that his name be heard.
Alan Jack was with his mother Barbara and two-year-old brother Robert in Canal Street, Strabane, on July 19 1972 when the blast in a nearby car went off. His family say his pram was hit by a shard of glass which fell from a building after the explosion which has been blamed on the Provisional IRA.
He is one of the youngest victims of Northern Ireland's Troubles, and his death came during the worst year of violence in the region with 472 people killed. Unborn twins were killed in the Omagh bombing in 1998 while six-week-old Andrew Maguire was killed on August 10 1976 in an incident involving the IRA and the Army in Belfast.
