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Warrenpoint ambush

guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 27 August 1979
Event ambush Q5572919

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
ambush
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Location
Narrow Water Castle[3]
Part of
The Troubles[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 54.111°, -6.279°[6]
Coordinates
🗺️ 54.111°, -6.279°
Image harvest run
pdhero-20261109T032439Z
Image last checked license
CC BY-SA 2.0
Image unavailable reason
no_pd_license
Number of deaths
19.0[9]
Number of injured
7.0[10]
Participant
Provisional Irish Republican Army, British Army[7][8]
Point in time
August 27, 1979[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Warrenpoint massacre en Narrow Water ambush en Narrow Water massacre en Warrenpoint ambush de Anschlag von Warrenpoint 1979 es emboscada de Warrenpoint nl Hinderlaag bij Warrenpoint ru Засада в Уорренпойнте sv Warrenpointmassakern
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Narrow Water Tower - geograph.org.uk - 494487.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0dkfss

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🔗 Connections
Participant 2
British Army, Provisional Irish Republican Army
Country 1
United Kingdom
Instance of 1
ambush
Location 1
Narrow Water Castle
Part of 1
The Troubles
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Summary

Warrenpoint ambush is an ambush[1].

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United Kingdom

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  8. [9] ↑ . news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . news.bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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