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Stephen Melrose and Nicholas Spanos shot dead by PIRA in the Netherlands

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1990
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In a gun attack in Roermond, Netherlands, the PIRA shot and killed two Australian lawyers on holiday, Stephen Melrose (24) and Nicholas Spanos (28). It was claimed that the men were mistaken for off-duty British Army soldiers. 

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https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dyndeaths.pl?querytype=date&day=27&month=05&year=1990
Malcolm Sutton: An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland