The
Milltown Cemetery attack (also known as the
Milltown Cemetery killings or
Milltown Massacre) took place on 16 March 1988 in
Belfast's
Milltown Cemetery. During the funeral of three
Provisional IRA volunteers
killed in Gibraltar, an
Ulster Defence Association (UDA) volunteer,
Michael Stone, attacked the mourners with hand grenades and pistols. As Stone then ran towards the nearby motorway, a large crowd began chasing him and he continued shooting and throwing grenades. Some of them caught him and began beating him, but he was rescued by the police and arrested. Three people had been killed and more than 60 wounded. The "unprecedented, one-man attack" was filmed by television news crews and caused shock around the world.