Of the IRA's six victims, three were members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and one was a soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment. The IRA's two civilian victims were a Catholic farmer inadvertently killed by a booby trap bomb on his farm, and a contractor, Harry Henry, for the British Army and RUC who was shot at his home in The Loup. Henry was a Protestant businessman who had set up a building company with his brother which prospered by supplying bomb-proof windows and repairing damaged security bases around Northern Ireland.[1]
All were killed in separate incidents except for two of the RUC officers, who were shot by IRA gunmen after a car chase. [2]Francis Hughes' involvement in the killings was confirmed in an IRA account of the incident.[3]
References
^Toolis, Kevin (1995). Rebel Hearts: journeys within the IRA's soul. Picador, pp. 52-53; ISBN0-330-34243-6
^McKittrick, D., Kelters, S., Feeney, B. and Thornton, C. Lost Lives. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999, p. 714 ISBN9781840182279