Warrenpoint ambush
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title:
Warrenpoint ambush
text:
The Warrenpoint ambush, also known as the Narrow Water ambush, the Warrenpoint massacre or the Narrow Water massacre, was a guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979. The IRA's South Armagh Brigade ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle outside Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. The first bomb was aimed at the convoy itself, and the second targeted the incoming reinforcements and the incident command point (ICP) set
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encyclopedia
description:
IRA attack on British forces in 1979
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenpoint_ambush
date created:
2006-06-03T16:04:39Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T06:01:36Z
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