The British Special Air Service kills three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in the Coagh ambush

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3. Juni 1991

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54.65° N, 6.62° W

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The British Special Air Service kills three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in the Coagh ambush.

Platziert: coordinates of the event it links, Coagh ambush.

1991 SAS ambush in Northern Ireland

The Coagh ambush was a military engagement that took place on 3 June 1991 in Coagh, County Tyrone, during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit from the East Tyrone Brigade, which had been en route to attack a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), was ambushed by the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS).

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