Twelve people were "Incinerated" when the Provisional IRA/Sinn Fein left a fire-bomb at "La Mon House", Gransha, a country hotel outside Belfast. Of the twelve people killed seven of the victims were women. All who died were attending the Annual dinner dance of the Irish Collie Club and were Protestant Civilians. Three married couples were amongst the dead. Over 400 people were packed into the La Mon hotel on the night of the bombing. Members of the Irish Collie Club and the Northern Ireland Junior Motorcycle Club were settling down to enjoy dinner dances at the popular hotel.
The people who died at in the "La Mon" fireball explosion were as follows:
Thomas Neeson 52 yrs old married with three children car salesman Civilian
Dorothy Nelson 35 yrs married with two children Civilian
Gordon Crothers 30 yrs old married with one child Civilian
Joan Crothers 26 yrs married one child Civilian
Ian McCracken 25 yrs old married Civilian
Elizabeth McCracken 25 yrs old Civilian
Sandra Morris 27 yrs old married with three children Civilian
Sarah Wilson Cooper 62 yrs old married with children Civilian
Christine Lockhart 32 yrs old married and a Civilian
Daniel Magill married Civilian
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Carol Mills 27 yrs old married Civilian
Paul Nelson 37 yrs married with two children Civilian
Carol Mills 27 yrs married Civilian
The Provisional IRA/Sinn Fein terrorist left petrol cans attached to window grills with meat hooks.
The horror, the terrible unreality of that night is hard to imagine. Guests stumbled out of the hotel or jumped out of windows with their hair and clothes on fire. Some victims, horribly burned, had skin hanging from them in strips. Others lost limbs in the blast. Survivors, their clothes in tatters, stumbled around the car park in shock. It was one of the most horrific and appalling attacks in the history of the troubles. Others trying to escape the horror, or taking victims to hospital, clogged roads leading from the hotel, making it difficult for the emergency services to get through. Two hours later, after firefighters had brought the blaze under control, the grisly task of removing the bodies began.
The bomb was described as a blast incendiary. The bomb was hung on the grille of a window with a meat hook. After tests the experts said the device consisted of an electrical initiating system, and an explosive charge in a steel container and at least four containers of petrol. When experts later carried out trials to simulate the effect the device was similar to napalm producing a fireball more than 60 feet in diameter.
This atrocity rates as one of the most horrific of the 'troubles' ever carried out. The dead were burned beyond recognition and over thirty people were injured in the attack many suffering horrendous burns which required treatment over twenty years later.
Paul Nelson 37 yrs married with two children Civilian
Carol Mills 27 yrs married Civilian
The Provisional IRA/Sinn Fein terrorist left petrol cans attached to window grills with meat hooks.
The horror, the terrible unreality of that night is hard to imagine. Guests stumbled out of the hotel or jumped out of windows with their hair and clothes on fire. Some victims, horribly burned, had skin hanging from them in strips. Others lost limbs in the blast. Survivors, their clothes in tatters, stumbled around the car park in shock. It was one of the most horrific and appalling attacks in the history of the troubles. Others trying to escape the horror, or taking victims to hospital, clogged roads leading from the hotel, making it difficult for the emergency services to get through. Two hours later, after firefighters had brought the blaze under control, the grisly task of removing the bodies began.
The bomb was described as a blast incendiary. The bomb was hung on the grille of a window with a meat hook. After tests the experts said the device consisted of an electrical initiating system, and an explosive charge in a steel container and at least four containers of petrol. When experts later carried out trials to simulate the effect the device was similar to napalm producing a fireball more than 60 feet in diameter.
This atrocity rates as one of the most horrific of the 'troubles' ever carried out. The dead were burned beyond recognition and over thirty people were injured in the attack many suffering horrendous burns which required treatment over twenty years later.