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1985 Newry mortar attack is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.1850°, -6.3316°.

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1985 Newry mortar attack

1985 Newry mortar attack in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Ardmore PSNI Station, Newry - geograph.org.uk - 2890309 — Eric Jones — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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1985 Newry mortar attack is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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On 28 February 1985, the Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base at Corry Square in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. The attack killed nine RUC officers and injured almost 40 others; the highest death toll ever suffered by the RUC. Afterwards, a major building scheme was begun to give police and military bases better protection from such attacks.

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In the early 1970s, after the onset of the Troubles, the Provisional IRA launched a campaign aimed at forcing the British to withdraw from Northern Ireland. The IRA, particularly its South Armagh Brigade, had repeatedly attacked the British Army and RUC with home-made mortars, but with limited success. Between 1973 and early 1978 a total of 71 mortar attacks were recorded, but none caused direct British Army or RUC deaths. There were only two deadly mortar attacks before 1985. The first was on 19 March 1979, when Private Peter Woolmore of the Queen's Regiment was killed in a mortar attack on Newtownhamilton British Army base. The second was on 12 November 1983, when an RUC officer was…

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