A watchdog report into the Kingsmill massacre has identified a series of failings in the original police investigation of the IRA atrocity, including a "wholly insufficient" deployment of resources to catch the killers.Ten Protestant men were shot dead outside the village of Kingsmill in Co Armagh in January 1976 when republican gunmen posing as British soldiers ordered them off a minibus on their way home from work.The killers asked the occupants of the bus their religion before opening fire.

A watchdog report into the Kingsmill massacre has identified a series of failings in the original police investigation of the IRA atrocity, including a "wholly insufficient" deployment of resources to catch the killers.Ten Protestant men were shot dead outside the village of Kingsmill in Co Armagh in January 1976 when republican gunmen posing as British soldiers ordered them off a minibus on their way home from work.The killers asked the occupants of the bus their religion before opening fire.