Mortar attack on Enniskillen barracks

On 4 September 1985 the Provisional IRA fired mortar bombs at a Royal Ulster Constabulary base and training centre in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Nobody was killed but 30 people were injured in the attack and the base, which was mainly used to train new recruits, was very badly damaged.
The IRA hoped to repeat the success they had earlier in the year when Newry RUC station was attacked with mortars and nine RUC officers were killed and almost 40 injured. It was one of numerous IRA mortar attacks on British Army and RUC bases around this time period.

Volunteers from the IRA's south Fermanagh brigade hijacked a lorry and fitted it with a baseplate and improvised mortar tubes. They parked the lorry on waste ground outside a pub about 300 yards away from the RUC base.
At around 07:50am the IRA unit launched the mortars at the base, three of the mortars hit the main building in the base badly damaging the building and one hit a car park right beside the building where the recruits usually sleep causing damage to a watch tower beside it. Luckily for the recruits the IRA's intelligence was faulty, they believed the recruits would be sleeping at the time of the attack but were instead having breakfast in a different part of the base. Some of the mortars went of target, one of them hit a garage injuring a number of people and wrecking a number of cars. In total 30 people were injured, 20 of them from the RUC and 10 were civilians and all taken to hospital. Most of the injuries were not serious but one civilian and training cadet had to stay over night in hospital as they had more serious injuries.

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