Musgrave Park Hospital is a regional specialist hospital, managed by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It specialises in orthopaedics, rheumatology, sports medicine and rehabilitation of patients of all ages.
In November 1991, a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in the Military Wing at Musgrave Park hospital. Two soldiers were killed (one Royal Army Medical Corps, the other Royal Corps of Transport), and 11 other people were injured, among them a five-year-old girl and a baby of four months. The 20 lb (9.1 kg) of Semtex exploded in a service tunnel connecting the Withers block, containing orthopaedic and children's wards and the Military Wing.[1] The dead and injured were watching a rugby match on television in the Military Wing's social club.
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- Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
- MITRE Trust - A Charity set up in 1991 to improve patient services at Musgrave Park Hospital
The original article can be found at Musgrave Park Hospital's Military Wing bombing and the edit history here.