During the Troubles in Northern Ireland , 13 people were killed in or near the village of Claudy in County Londonderry . Nine of these people , including one nine-year-old child , were killed in the Claudy bombing of 31 July 1972 , in which three suspected Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in Main Street . Inadequate warning was given , and no paramilitary group has ever admitted responsibility for the bombing . Of the other four people to be killed in Claudy , three were Protestant members of the security forces ( two Ulster Defence Regiment and one Royal Ulster Constabulary ) , and all were killed by the IRA in separate incidents . The other person to be killed was a Catholic civilian killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters . All 13 victims died during a relatively brief period , from 1972 to 1976
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