1987 Rheindahlen bombing

1987 Rheindahlen bombing
Part of the Troubles
LocationRheindahlen, West Germany
Date23 March 1987
22:30 (UTC+01:00)
TargetMilitary target
Attack type
Car bomb
Deaths0
Injured31

The 1987 Rheindahlen bombing was a car bomb attack on 23 March 1987 at JHQ Rheindahlen military barracks, the British Army headquarters in West Germany, injuring thirty-one. The large 300 lb (140 kg) car bomb exploded near the visitors officers' mess of the barracks. The Provisional IRA later stated it had carried out the bombing. It was the second bombing in Rheindahlen, the first being in 1973, and the start of the IRA's campaign on mainland Europe from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Although British soldiers were targeted, most of the injured were actually German officers and their wives.