Stag Inn attack

Stag Inn Attack
Stag Inn Attack
Part of the Troubles
Location	Milltown Road, Belvoir Park Forest, Belfast,; Northern Ireland
Date	30 July 1976 ; 8.00 pm (GMT)
Target	Protestants, ; Loyalists, Ulster Unionists
Attack type	mass shooting
Weapons	automatic rifles
Deaths	4
Injured	6
Perpetrator	Republican Action Force (RAF) as members of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade

The Stag Inn attack was a sectarian gun attack, on 30 July 1976, carried out by a group of Belfast IRA Volunteers using the cover name Republican Action Force. Four Protestants, all civilians, the youngest being 48 years old and the eldest 70, were all killed in the attack with several others being injured.^[1] Three Catholics were killed the previous day in a Loyalish bomb, part of a string of sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland by different paramilitary organizations.^[2]^[1]

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[2] Cadwallader, Anne (18 October 2013). Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland (Paperback 1st ed.). Mercier Press. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-1781171882.

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