A child ' s terror as the ruthless IRA bombers strike , crystalises the anguish of the day of murder Youngest of the nine who died in the IRA holocaust - 14 year old Glynn Stephen Parker , of Belfast . Timetable of terror Between 2 . 10 and 3 . 15 on the afternoon of July 21 a total of 19 bombs exploded in various parts of Belfast . Nine people died in the explosions - seven civilians and two soldiers . The injured were - 77 women and girls and 53 men and boys . It was at first thought that 11 had died . This is the timetable of terror on this day of murderous , ruthless bombing of the civilian population : - 2 . 10 - Smithfield bus station . Explosion in strikeConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar left in an enclosed yard . Extensive damage to houses in nearby Samuel diedLife.Die.Unspecified. Many houses damaged . 2 . 16 - Brookvale Hotel , Brookvale Ave . , Antrim Road . Three men armed with a sub - machine gun planted a bomb in the building in a suitcase explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodehotel was wrecked and adjoining houses were damaged diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 23 - LMS Railway Station , York Road . injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedin a suitcase left on the platform . Extensive damage to the station interior and the roof was blown off diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 45 - Star Taxis , Crumlin Road . The explosion was in bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar beside the houses of the warders from the nearby Crumlin Road prison . ExplosionConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedblast wrecked the taxi offices and caused damages to the damageArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Damage. 2 . 48 - Oxford Street bus station damagedArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.DamageExplosion in a car which had been driven into the rear of the station . Extensive damage to the office block and superficial damage to adjoining property . Six people killed and nearly 40 injured .
A child ' s terror as the ruthless IRA bombers strike , crystalises the anguish of the day of murder Youngest of the nine who died in the IRA holocaust - 14 year old Glynn Stephen Parker , of Belfast . Timetable of terror Between 2 . 10 and 3 . 15 on the afternoon of July 21 a total of 19 bombs exploded in various parts of Belfast . Nine people died in the explosions - seven civilians and two soldiers . The injured were - 77 women and girls and 53 men and boys . It was at first thought that 11 had died . This is the timetable of terror on this day of murderous , ruthless bombing of the civilian population : - 2 . 10 - Smithfield bus station . Explosion in strikeConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar left in an enclosed yard . Extensive damage to houses in nearby Samuel diedLife.Die.Unspecified. Many houses damaged . 2 . 16 - Brookvale Hotel , Brookvale Ave . , Antrim Road . Three men armed with a sub - machine gun planted a bomb in the building in a suitcase explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodehotel was wrecked and adjoining houses were damaged diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 23 - LMS Railway Station , York Road . injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedin a suitcase left on the platform . Extensive damage to the station interior and the roof was blown off diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 45 - Star Taxis , Crumlin Road . The explosion was in bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar beside the houses of the warders from the nearby Crumlin Road prison . ExplosionConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedblast wrecked the taxi offices and caused damages to the damageArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Damage. 2 . 48 - Oxford Street bus station damagedArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.DamageExplosion in a car which had been driven into the rear of the station . Extensive damage to the office block and superficial damage to adjoining property . Six people killed and nearly 40 injured .
ONE day in March an American drone circled above Pakistan ' s North Waziristan tribal area , zeroed in on a gathering of village men , some of whom were armed , and unleashed three missiles in quick succession . It turned out to be a meeting to settle a dispute over a chromite mine . Most of the 40 or so killedLife.Die.Unspecifiedwere civilians , according to accounts , though a dozen Taliban also diedLife.Die.Unspecifiedin the attack , including a local commander , Sherabat Khan . The Taliban nowadays often adjudicate quarrels in the tribal areas , a wild buffer zone that runs along Pakistan ' s border with Afghanistan .
Stephen Parker was a student of the City of Belfast School of Music who played French Horn in the City of Belfast Youth Orchestra under the direction of Mr Leonard Pugh . Stephen was fourteen and a half years old when he bacame a victim of what has come to be known in the history of Northern Ireland as the Bloody Friday outrage on July 21st , 1972 . He died as he endeavoured to warn others of the presence of an diedLife.Die.Unspecifiedcar bomb . An innocent victim of a terrorist outrage in a purely residential area of the City .
Calls for an inquiry accompanied the 30th anniversary commemoration of the 15 people who died and 16 who were seriously injured in the McGurk ' s bar bombing of 1971 . Relatives diedLife.Die.Unspecifiedthe victims , who held injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedmemorial service in Belfast this week bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeare calling for an investigation into allegations of crown force collusion in the UVF bomb attack .