Kingsmill murders came amid intense spate of sectarian killings
by David Young
Apr 12, 2024
3 minutes
The massacre at Kingsmill in 1976 came amid a week of sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
The intense spate of tit-for-tat civilian murders began on New Year’s Eve when a pub bomb blamed on a cover group for the INLA killed three Protestants – William Scott, 28, Richard Beattie, 44, and Sylvia McCullough, 31 – in the town of Gilford in Co Down.
Then on January 4, the day before the murder of the 10 Protestant workmen on a dark roadside at Kingsmill, six men were fatally injured in
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