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Dungiven landmine and gun attack
| Dungiven landmine and gun attack | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Provisional IRA | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Unknown | Sergeant Stuart Reid † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1 army convoy | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None |
3 killed 7 wounded 1 vehicle destroyed 1 vehicle damaged | ||||||
  Location within Northern Ireland | |||||||
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On 24 June 1972, in the rural townland of Crabarkey near Dungiven, the Provisional IRA detonated an improvised land mine, killing three British Army soldiers in a Land Rover.[1] It was one of many such landmine attacks by the IRA in rural areas in the 1970s.
- ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "Sutton Index of Death from the Conflict in Ireland: 24 June 1972". Conflict Archive on the Internet. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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