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Sole Kingsmill survivor calls for public inquiry after ‘disappointing inquest’

Source: PA Wire

There must be a public inquiry into the Kingsmill murders, the sole survivor of the atrocity has said, expressing disappointment after a “Band-Aid inquest”.

Alan Black was shot a number of times and left for dead among 10 of his slain workmates on a Co Armagh roadside by IRA terrorists on January 5 1976.

The long-running inquest on Friday found the shooting dead of the 10 Protestant workmen was an “overtly sectarian attack by the IRA”.

Coroner Brian Sherrard said

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