Dungiven landmine and gun attack

Dungiven landmine and gun attack
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
Date24 June 1972
Location
Crabarkey near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
54°55′40.8″N 6°55′30″W / 54.928000°N 6.92500°W / 54.928000; -6.92500
Result Successful IRA Operation
Belligerents
Provisional IRA
*Derry Brigade

 United Kingdom

British Army
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

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. It was one of many such landmine attacks by the IRA in rural areas in the 1970s.

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