Former British soldiers who survived one of the worst terrorist bomb attacks during the Troubles in Northern Ireland yesterday gathered in a Co Derry army camp to mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing.
Eleven soldiers, most of them members of the Cheshire Regiment, and six civilians, five of them women, were killed in an INLA no warning bomb attack on the Droppin Well bar in Ballykelly, Co Derry, on December 7th, 1982.
Thirty other people were injured, many of them seriously.
Members of the INLA had been observing the bar which was frequented by off-duty soldiers from the nearby Shackleton Barracks.
The bomb contained only five lbs of commercial explosives but when it exploded, the ceiling of the basement bar collapsed on the 150 patrons and most of the fatalities were caused by falling masonry.
In Shackleton Barracks yesterday, about 200 people attended a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate those who died.
Among those convicted of the bombing were a husband and wife and a mother and daughter, all of them from Derry.