Warrenpoint ambush
The Warrenpoint ambush or Warrenpoint massacre was a guerrilla assault by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)'s South Armagh Brigade on 27 August 1979. The IRA attacked a British Army convoy with two large bombs at Narrow Water Castle (near Warrenpoint), Northern Ireland.
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