Attack on the Cloghoge checkpoint | |||||||
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Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner | |||||||
Entrance to a British Army checkpoint near Newry, late 1980s | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Provisional IRA | British Army | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Unknown | Lt. Andrew Rawding[1] | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2 active service units 1 railway bomb |
24 soldiers in complex 2 patrols | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
None |
1 killed 23 wounded | ||||||
The attack on Cloghoge checkpoint was an unconventional railway bomb attack carried out on 1 May 1992 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint, manned at the time by members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.[2] The IRA's South Armagh Brigade fitted a van with train wheels that allowed it to move along a railway line. A large bomb was placed inside the van, which was then driven along the railway line to the target. The explosion killed one British soldier and injured 23 others. The complex, just north of the village of Cloghoge in County Armagh, on the southern outskirts of Newry, was utterly destroyed.