Loughgall ambush 8th of May 1987 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 SAS Ambush Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' were shot dead by the SAS in a fierce gun battle at Loughgall on 8 May 1987. They were killed as they approached the station with a 200lb bomb, its fuse lit, in the bucket of a hijacked digger. The IRA men who died were the East Tyrone IRA 'Commander' Patrick Kelly, 32; Declan Arthurs, 21; Seamus Donnelly, 19; Michael Gorml

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