Dungiven landmine and gun attack

Dungiven landmine and gun attack
	Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
Date	24 June 1972
Location	Crabarkey near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland54°55′40.8″N 6°55′30″W
Result	IRA victory
Belligerents
Provisional IRA	United Kingdom; British Army
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Sergeant Stuart Reid †
Strength
	1 army convoy
Casualties and losses
None	3 killed; 7 wounded; 1 vehicle destroyed; 1 vehicle damaged
	Location within Northern Ireland

On 24 June 1972, in the rural townland of Crabarkey near Dungiven, the Provisional IRA detonated an improvised land mine, killing three British Army soldiers in a Land Rover. It was one of many such landmine attacks by the IRA in rural areas in the 1970s.

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