On 16 March 1988, Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killed in Operation Flavius, at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland with hand grenades and pistols. He had learned there would be no police or armed IRA members at the cemetery. As Stone then ran towards the nearby motorway, a large crowd chased him and he continued shooting and throwing grenades. Some of the crowd caught Stone and beat him, but he was rescued by the police and arrested. Three people were killed and more than 60 wounded.