What the records say
- When
- 13 Dec 1989
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 54.26° N, 7.18° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Attack on Derryard checkpoint.
Summary
Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army make a heavy attack on a permanent vehicle checkpoint in County Fermanagh manned by the King's Own Scottish Borderers; 2 British Army soldiers are killed.
Attack on Derryard checkpoint
1989 Provisional IRA attack in Northern Ireland
On 13 December 1989 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint complex manned by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) near the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border at Derryard townland, a few miles north of Rosslea, County Fermanagh.
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