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[2] [6] Both men then walked back out into the street, where Strydom was then arrested by several policemen. [2] Strydom smiled throughout the shooting. [5] [11] Eight people were killed and 16 were injured in the aftermath. [6] [a] One of the wounded victims was paralyzed from the waist down. [13] Seven of the victims were black, while one was ...
This category includes individuals killed as a direct result of Provisional IRA attacks, but not those who died carrying them out. The category is not a comprehensive list of those killed by the Provisional IRA but only those individuals who have had pages created on Wikipedia.
The pair then attacked 24 year-old chef Mary Duffy, who Shaw smothered with a cushion after she was raped by both men. Both were later convicted and became Ireland's longest serving prisoners; Evans died at age 69 in 2012. [12] 1977: Disappearance of Mary Boyle: 1: Ballyshannon, County Donegal: 6 year-old Mary Boyle was abducted and is presumed ...
Killed by an IED laid by the Provisional IRA during a Garda/Defence Forces cross border search: Near Wattlebridge, County Fermanagh (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) Patrick Waters: Sergeant: 10114: 45: 18 November 1971: Accidentally killed in a road traffic collision while responding to an emergency call: Sligo, County Sligo: Richard ...
The vast majority of English-language place names in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names. The spelling which has legal force is usually that used by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Many of Ireland's longest place names are found in the far west of the island, where the Irish language has survived the longest; including Gaeltacht ...
The longest department name in France is Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (23 characters, including hyphens). The longest place name in Austria is Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya (40 characters). The longest street name in Hungary is Ferihegyi repülőtérre vezető út. It means "Road leading to the airport at Ferihegy" (28 characters)
Elias Xitavhudzi was a South African serial killer who murdered 16 women in Atteridgeville, South Africa, in the 1950s.Xitavhudzi targeted only whites in the then-strictly segregated community.
Sergeant Patrick Joseph Morrissey (7 March 1936 – 27 June 1985) was a member of the Garda Síochána, the national police service of Ireland, killed by the INLA. [1] His murder resulted in the last death sentences issued by an Irish court, 30 years after the last death sentence executed in Ireland.