Background
On 16 June 1994, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three UVF members - Colin Craig, David Hamilton and Trevor King - on the Shankill Road in Belfast. The following day, the UVF launched two retaliatory attacks. In the first, UVF members shot dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver in Carrickfergus. In the second, they shot dead two Protestant civilians in Newtownabbey, whom they assumed were Catholics. The Loughinisland massacre, a day later, is believed to have been a further retaliation.
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