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Droppin Well bombing

bomb attack

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On the night of December 6, 1982, a time bomb struck Ballykelly, killing seventeen people and wounding sixty-six others. The Irish National Liberation Army claimed the attack, joining a long list of violent events that scarred the region during the Troubles. What remains is a sudden loss of life in a small place, remembered through the names of the dead and the shape of the wound they left behind.
Droppin Well bombing is a bomb attack in County Derry, Ireland.
Date
1982-12-06

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