The Warrenpoint ambush or Narrow Water ambush (also called the Warrenpoint massacre or Narrow Water massacre) was a guerrilla assault by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)'s South Armagh Brigade on 27 August 1979. The IRA attacked a British Army convoy with two large bombs at Narrow Water Castle (near Warrenpoint), Northern Ireland. It resulted in the British Army's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with 18 soldiers being killed and six seriously injured.
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