What the records say
- When
- 3 Jun 1991
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 54.65° N, 6.62° W
- Description
- The British Special Air Service kills three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in the Coagh ambush.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Coagh ambush.
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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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В деревне Коу (графство Тирон, Северная Ирландия) произошло вооружённое столкновение между тремя боевиками ИРА из Восточно-Тиронской бригады и восемью…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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