Strand Bar bombing
| Strand Bar bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Troubles | |
| Location | Anderson Street, Short Strand, Belfast |
| Date | 12 April 1975 8:12 pm |
| Target | Catholics |
Attack type | Improvised bombing, shooting |
| Deaths | 6 |
| Injured | ~50 |
| Perpetrator | Red Hand Commando |
The Strand Bar Bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 April 1975, during the Troubles. The Red Hand Commando (RHC), a loyalist paramilitary group, threw an improvised bomb into a pub frequented by Catholics in the Short Strand neighbourhood, killing six civilians and injuring about fifty others. It took place during a spate of tit-for-tat attacks by loyalists and Irish republican paramilitaries.