Soldiers accused in Belfast
NZPA-Reuter Belfast Two teen-age British soldiers appeared in court in Belfast on Saturday charged with the attempted .aurder of a 60-year-old power worker who was found lying with serious injuries in Belfast’s docks last week. The soldiers, Trevor Robb, aged 19, and .Stephen Mercer, aged 18, of the Royal Artillery, will appear in court again on August 11. In a separate incident in Ulster on Saturday, a postman was seriously injured when his car detonated a landmine near Inniskillen, 70 miles west of the capital. The mine was presumed to have been intended for a British Army patrol. Two men, believed to be urban guerrillas, died when a bomb they were carrying in their car exploded prematurely in Castlederg, County Tyrone. One man died instantly and the other died later, the police say. The blast in the town centre damaged five houses. No other casualties were reported.
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