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(Q5572919)

English

Warrenpoint ambush

guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 27 August 1979

  • Narrow Water ambush
  • Warrenpoint massacre
  • Narrow Water massacre
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Statements

instance of
ambush
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part of
The Troubles
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point in time
27 August 1979
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number of injured
7
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number of deaths
19
1 reference
reference URL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/27/newsid_3891000/3891055.stm
retrieved
11 January 2017
title
BBC ON THIS DAY (English)
publisher
BBC
language of work or name
English
quotation
At least 18 soldiers have been killed in two booby-trap bomb attacks at Warrenpoint (English)
Among the dead was a civilian, the 28-year-old son of one of the Queen's coachmen (English)

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