The 13 people killed on Bloody Sunday were shot dead by members of the 1st battalion (1 Para) of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment in the space of 10 minutes shortly after 4pm on January 30th, 1972.
Fifteen people also were wounded in the Bloody Sunday shootings with one of them, John Johnston, dying as a result of those injuries four months later. At least two others were badly injured when struck by British army vehicles.
1 Para was sent to Derry that day to deal with a banned anti-internment march that started in the Creggan area of the city and by a circuitous route was to end at the Guildhall in the city centre.
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