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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Dig begins for remains of Troubles victim 50 years after disappearance

b/w picture of Seamus Maguire
Seamus Maguire, one of 17 people killed in the Troubles officially designated as ‘disappeared’. Photograph: ICLVR/PA

Half a century after Seamus Maguire was abducted and became one of the “disappeared” of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, a search for his remains has begun in two acres of County Antrim farmland.

A team of forensic experts started the dig on Tuesday in the Derryclone townland where republican paramilitaries are believed to have killed and secretly buried the 29-year-old in 1976.

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