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

Fresh inquest recommended into 1971 McGurk’s bar bombing in Belfast

Victims' relatives hold a banner with photos of those killed on it and the words: Innocent victims, McGurk's bar massacre, time for truth.
Relatives of the McGurk's bar bombing victims outside the police ombudsman’s office in Belfast in 2017. Photograph: O Muirigh Solicitors/PA

Northern Ireland’s attorney general has recommended a new inquest into a bombing by loyalist paramilitaries that killed 15 people, including two children, in Belfast in 1971.

Brenda King decided the massacre at the Catholic-owned McGurk’s bar, in north Belfast, merited fresh scrutiny amid new evidence about the location of army observation posts near the atrocity.

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