Editing Booby trap (section)

====Northern Ireland====
During [[the Troubles]], an [[Ethnic nationalism|ethnonationalist]] conflict in [[Northern Ireland]], booby traps were used by [[Irish republicanism|Irish republican]] and [[Ulster loyalism|Ulster loyalist]] paramilitaries to target British [[security forces]] and civilians. The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) was the most prolific user of the booby traps during the conflict; according to the [[Sutton Index of Deaths]], 180 people were killed during the Troubles as the result of booby trap bombs, the vast majority of them laid by the IRA. A common type of booby trap was the [[car bomb]], which involved attaching a bomb to a car so that starting or driving it would detonate the explosive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/index.html|title=CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths - menu page|access-date=23 February 2015|archive-date=6 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206153828/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>