Bomb trap in Ulster

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33235, 26 May 1973, Page 15

Bomb trap in Ulster

(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

BELFAST, May 25.

The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army claimed responsi-

bility for a bomb trap which killed two

soldiers and injured another when it exploded in a house near the border with the Irish Republic last night.

The bomb went off as troops were investigating reports that six armed men had planted a package of explosives in the building earlier in the day. The three soldiers were in the garden of the house, which was wrecked in the blast. The house, near Crossmaglen, within a mile of the border, was owned by the father of a British serviceman. Tha cniith Armnoh hriondp

of the Provisionals claimed responsibility for the blast and said in a statement: “The campaign against the occu-l pational forces will continue so long as the demands already made to Britain by the! Provisional I.R.A. are not' met. Security officials reacted bitterly to the I.R.A. claim.

“What they really mean is that they have confessed to murder,” a spokesman said. The injured man was not, in a serious condition. Three persons were hurt, not seriously, when a bomb exploded outside a crowded bar at Dungannon, County Tyrone, at closing time last night. The Tyrone branch of the Provisionals denied responsibility.