Terrorist attack
Open on the mapBallygawley bus bombing: Eight British soldiers are killed by an IRA bomb attack on their bus in Ballygawley, County Tyrone
20 Aug 1988 · 54.50° N, 7.17° W
What the records say
- When
- 20 Aug 1988
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 54.50° N, 7.17° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Ballygawley bus bombing.
The source
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