At an IRA-sponsored collective funeral on 16 March 1988 for McCann 's body along with that of Savage and Farrell 's at the IRA plot in Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast , as the bodies were being lowered into the ground the funeral party came under a hand-grenade attack from a lone Loyalist paramilitary . The funeral immediately descending into chaotic scenes , as a running fight occurred between the lone gunman firing a handgun and throwing more grenades at a mob as it pursued him through the cemetery 's grounds . Three mourners were killed and scores wounded in the incident
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Milltown Cemetery attack
Daniel McCann