In a carefully organised
ambush the IRA first blew up a parked trailer on a dual carriageway running
parallel with Carlingford Lough as an Army convoy passed. 6 british
soldiers were killed in the initial blast. But the IRA had anticipated
where the soldiers would take cover; There they had concealed another device,
half an hour later this was remotely detonated killing 12 more soldiers.
Of the 18 soldiers killed 16 were members of the
2nd Battalion the
Parachute Regiment.
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