Downpatrick landmine attack

Downpatrick landmine attack
Part of the Troubles
Downpatrick landmine attack (Northern Ireland)
Location	Ballydugan Road, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°19′19.2″N 5°42′10.8″W / 54.322000°N 5.703000°W / 54.322000; -5.703000
Date	9 April 1990
Target	Ulster Defence Regiment
Attack type	Improvised land mine
Deaths	4 soldiers
Injured	4 soldiers, 1 civilian
Perpetrator	Provisional IRA

On 9 April 1990, the South Down Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a massive improvised land mine under a British Army convoy outside Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. Four soldiers of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) were killed,^[1] the regiment's greatest loss of life since 1983.