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The M62 coach bombing, sometimes referred to as the M62 Massacre, [3] occurred on 4 February 1974 on the M62 motorway in northern England, when a 25-pound (11 kg) [n 1] Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb hidden inside the luggage locker of a coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members exploded, killing twelve people (nine soldiers and three ...
4 February – M62 coach bombing: 12 people were killed by an IRA bomb planted on a coach on the M62 in the West Riding of Yorkshire carrying British soldiers and their families. [10] 2 May - Rose & Crown Bar bombing - Six Catholic civilians were killed and 18 injured by a UVF bomb at a bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [11]
However the M62 investigation would prove to be rushed, careless and ultimately forged, but culminated in Ward claiming culpability for the M62 coach bombing and two separate, non-fatal explosions. Initially, Ward was questioned by two members of the Metropolitan Police Service at Wakefield's Police Training College.
4 February - M62 coach bombing An IRA bomb exploded aboard a bus carrying British soldiers and several of their family members in Yorkshire, killing nine soldiers and three civilians. At the time it was the highest number of deaths caused by an IRA bomb in England. [ 46 ]
The Provisional IRA began a bombing campaign in England in March 1973 when they bombed the Old Bailey court house, injuring over 200 people. [4] The following year was the worst year of the Troubles outside of Northern Ireland: at the beginning of 1974 the IRA exploded a bomb on a coach carrying soldiers and some family members on the M62, killing 12 people including four civilians. [5]
July 2005 London bombings (1 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Bus bombings in the United Kingdom" ... M62 coach bombing; W. 1990 Wembley bombing This page was ...
M62 coach bombing – eight British Army soldiers and three civilians (the wife and two children of one of the soldiers who was killed) are killed when a PIRA bomb exploded on a bus as it was travelling along the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire, England. 4 March
A car bomb outside the headquarters of the British Army's 16th Parachute Regiment by Official IRA member Noel Jenkinson. 4 February 1974 M62 coach bombing: West Yorkshire, England 12 38 A bombing on a coach carrying servicemen and their families by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. 5 October 1974 Guildford pub bombings: Guildford, England 5 65