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On 9 April 1990, the South Down Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a massive improvised land mine under a British Army convoy outside Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. Four soldiers of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) were killed,[1] the regiment's greatest loss of life since 1983.
^"Sutton Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 9 April 1990". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN).
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