Terrorist attack
Open on the mapLoughgall ambush: A 24-man unit of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) ambushed eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as they…
8 May 1987 · 54.41° N, 6.61° W
What the records say
- When
- 8 May 1987
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 54.41° N, 6.61° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Loughgall ambush.
Summary
Loughgall ambush: A 24-man unit of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) ambushed eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as they mounted an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks. All IRA members were killed as well as one civilian.
2 sources record it
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “huit membres de l’IRA provisoire sont abattus dans l’embuscade de Loughgall par les hommes du SAS en Irlande du Nord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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