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| date = 20 August 1988 | time = 12:30 a.m. |location = | timezone = || result = Successful IRA ambush | combatant1 = Irish Republican Army (East Tyrone Brigade) | combatant2 = British Army | commander1 = Unknown | commander2 = Unknown | strength1 = 1 IRA ASU | strength2 = 36 British Soldiers | casualties1 = None | casualties2 = 8 soldiers dead, 28 wounded | type = Roadside bomb | weapons = | fatalities = 8 soldiers | injuries = 28 soldiers | perp = Provisional IRA }} The Ballygawley bus bombing was a roadside bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on a bus carrying British soldiers in Northern Ireland. It occurred in the early hours of 20 August 1988 in the townland of Curr near Ballygawley, County Tyrone. The attack killed eight soldiers and wounded another 28.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) )〕 It was the second-deadliest attack on the British Army in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, after the Warrenpoint ambush of 1979. In the wake of the bombing the British Army began ferrying its troops in and out of County Tyrone by helicopter. ==Background== The Provisional IRA had been attacking British Army patrols and convoys with roadside bombs regularly since the early 1970s. Most of these attacks took place in rural parts of Northern Ireland; especially County Tyrone (where the IRA's Tyrone Brigade was active) and southern County Armagh (heartland of the South Armagh Brigade). In August 1979, the IRA ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs near Warrenpoint, killing eighteen soldiers. This was the deadliest attack on the British Army in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. In May 1981, five British soldiers were killed when their Saracen APC was ripped apart by a roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh.〔(Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1981 ). Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 20 August 2013.〕〔(''Northern Ireland: Death Cycle'' ). ''Time'', 1 June 1981.〕 In July 1983, four British soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck an IRA landmine near Ballygawley, County Tyrone.〔(A Chronology of the Conflict: July 1983 ). Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN).〕 In December 1985, the Tyrone IRA launched an assault on the police barracks in Ballygawley, shooting dead two officers and destroying the barracks with a bomb.〔Taylor, Peter. ''Brits: The War Against the IRA''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002. p.273〕 In June 1988, six off-duty British soldiers were killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath their van in Lisburn. It had been attached to the van as they were taking part in a charity marathon.〔English, Richard. ''Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA''. Oxford University Press, 2004. p.258〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballygawley bus bombing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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