Английская Википедия:Ballygawley land mine attack
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In the Ballygawley land mine attack of 13 July 1983, four soldiers of the British Army's Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) land mine near Ballygawley in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The soldiers were travelling in a convoy of armoured vehicles when the land mine was detonated remotely.
Background
Since 1970, the IRA had been waging a guerrilla campaign against the British security forces in Northern Ireland. The IRA's East Tyrone Brigade was particularly active. The Irish Times reported: "This stretch of road has been a favourite ambush spot for successive generations of IRA men since the 1920s. [...] In March 1973 a British Army lieutenant was killed when his armoured car was blown up by a similar 500 lb landmine along the same road".[1] In February 1983 the IRA shot dead an off-duty UDR soldier in Ballygawley.[2]
Attack
On the morning of 13 July 1983, soldiers of the 6th Battalion UDR were travelling in a convoy of five armoured Land Rovers from St Lucia Barracks, Omagh to Ballykinler Barracks for a training exercise.[1] As the convoy was about to begin the long descent down Ballymacilroy Hill into Ballygawley, a Шаблон:Convert land mine exploded under the last vehicle.[1] It had been planted in a culvert underneath the road and detonated remotely.[1] The blast threw the vehicle into the air and gouged a large crater in the road.[1] Three soldiers were killed outright and a fourth died later in hospital. The soldiers killed were Ronald Alexander (19), Thomas Harron (25), John Roxborough (19), and Oswell Neely (20), all Protestants from Northern Ireland.[2][1]
Two men received life sentences for the attack and for the killing of RUC officer Paul Clarke in Carrickmore four months later.[1] In 1988, the IRA killed eight British soldiers in a bomb attack along the same road, in the Ballygawley bus bombing.[1]
See also
- Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1980–1989)
- Dungannon land mine attack
- Altnaveigh landmine attack
- Warrenpoint ambush
- Ballygawley bus bombing
- 1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb
References
- Английская Википедия
- Improvised explosive device bombings in 1983
- Military history of County Tyrone
- 1983 in Northern Ireland
- Provisional IRA bombings in Northern Ireland
- The Troubles in County Tyrone
- British Army in Operation Banner
- Military actions and engagements during the Troubles (Northern Ireland)
- Mass murder in 1983
- July 1983 events in the United Kingdom
- 1983 crimes in the United Kingdom
- Ambushes in Northern Ireland
- 1980s disasters in Ireland
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