Castlerock killings | |
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Part of the Troubles | |
Location | Gortree Park, Castlerock, Northern Ireland |
Date | 25 March 1993 |
Attack type | Shooting |
Deaths | 4 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrators | Ulster Defence Association |
The Castlerock killings took place on 25 March 1993 in the village of Castlerock, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, shot dead three Catholic civilians and a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member as they arrived for work in a van. Another was wounded.[1] The "Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF) claimed it had targeted an IRA member and his "accomplices". A UDA member was later imprisoned for his part in the attack and in the Greysteel massacre several months later, but was released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.