Top of the Hill bar shooting

Top of the Hill bar shooting
Part of The Troubles
Annie's Bar (left) in 2009
Top of the Hill bar shooting (Northern Ireland)
LocationStrabane Old Road, Derry, Northern Ireland
Date20 December 1972
10:30 PM
TargetIrish Catholics
Attack type
Mass shooting, massacre
WeaponsSterling submachine gun
Deaths5
Injured4
PerpetratorUlster Defence Association

The Top of the Hill bar shooting, or Annie's Bar massacre, was a mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland on 20 December 1972, during the Troubles. Five civilians were killed when members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, opened fire on the customers in a pub frequented by Catholics.