Dungiven landmine and gun attack

Dungiven landmine and gun attack
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Date 24 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	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
class=notpageimage| 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.^[1] It was one of many such landmine attacks by the IRA in rural areas in the 1970s.