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Loughgall Ambush

1987 CE · Europe · War

On 8 May 1987, an eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in the village of Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. An IRA member drove a digger with a bomb in its bucket through the perimeter fence, while the rest of the unit arrived in a van and fired on the building.

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