Dungannon land mine attack

In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ambushed two British Army landrovers with an improvised land mine and gunfire outside Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Four British soldiers were killed in the attack.
Since the beginning of its campaign in 1970, the Provisional IRA had carried out many improvised landmine and roadside bomb attacks on British forces in the region. In September 1972, three British soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was blown up by an IRA land mine at Sanaghanroe, near Dungannon. In March 1974, two IRA members were killed on the Aughnacloy Road near Dungannon when the landmine they were planting exploded prematurely.

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