Ulster Herald
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Posted: 5:00 pm February 12, 2021
By Alan Rodgers
IT’S exactly 50 years ago this week since five people died on a local mountain in what has been described as ‘one of the forgotten atrocities of the Troubles.’
On February 9, 1971, a bomb exploded on Brougher Mountain near Trillick killing five men, two BBC technicians and three civilians working with a contracting firm.
No-one ever claimed responsibility but the bomb was believed to have been planted by the IRA as a British Army mobile patrol was the intended target.
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Under the heading of ‘Cruel and bloody deed on mountain,’ the UlsterHerald reported that, ‘Horror and revulsion were the instinctive reactions of the community to the horrifying news that five men were killed instantly when a booby-trap heavily charged with explosives blew up a landrover in which they travelled on a track at Brougher Mountain near Trillick’.