On 6 March 1988, the SAS shot dead three members of an active service unit of the Provisional IRA in Gibraltar.
The bodies of three IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar are flown back to Ireland.
The IRA suffered several setbacks in the year before 3 members were killed in Gibraltar.
Gibraltar's Changing of the Guard ceremony was the target for an IRA bombing mission.
IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar named as Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage & Daniel McCann.
Three members of the IRA are shot dead by British military personnel in Gibraltar.