Wreckage outside the Beavpont Arms in the Northern Irish village of Claudy in 1972. Nine people were killed and more than 30 were injured when three vehicles exploded on the main street in Claudy without warning on 31 JulyPhotograph: PAFather James Chesney directed the IRA Claudy bomb attacks but his role in the atrocity was covered upPhotograph: PA Wire/PAThe wreckage from the 1972 bombing of Claudy. Three cars exploded on the main street on 31 JulyPhotograph: Belfast Telegraph/PA
Men with lorries did what they could to clear up after the car bomb blasts in ClaudyPhotograph: PA
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