 On 12 June 1973 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a car bomb on Railway Road, with inadequate warning.Six Protestant civilians, all in their 60s and 70s, were killed.The second most fatal incident occurred on 2 October 1975 but in this case all four victims were members of the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), killed when their own bomb went off as they travelled through Farrenlester near Coleraine.