| Chlorane Bar attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of The Troubles | |
| Location | Chlorane Bar, 23 Gresham Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates | 54°36′06.36″N 5°55′57.28″W / 54.6017667°N 5.9325778°W |
| Date | 5 June 1976 22.00 (BST) |
Attack type | mass shooting |
| Weapons | 2 .45-revolvers, 1 9mm pistol, 1 .22 pistol |
| Deaths | 5 civilians (3 Catholic, 2 Protestant) |
| Perpetrator | UVF |
The Chlorane Bar attack was a mass shooting at a city centre pub on 5 June 1976 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisation, apparently in retaliation for the Provisional IRA bombing attack on the Times Bar on York Road, in which two Protestant civilians were killed. In the Chlorane attack, five civilian men were killed; three Catholics and two Protestants. The gunmen were militants from the UVF Belfast Brigade's Shankill Road battalion. The assault was a joint operation by the platoons based at the Brown Bear and the Windsor Bar, drinking haunts in the Shankill Road district frequented by UVF members.