Police nab ‘most wanted’ gunman
NZPA-Reuter Belfast Northern Ireland security forces have captured the province’s most wanted Irish Republican Army guerrilla leader, the police have said. They said that with the capture of 21-year-old Sean Patrick Hughes authorities had neutralised one of the most deadly I.R.A. guerrilla squads to emerge in the last nine years of violence. Hughes was injured and captured after a gun battle with British paratroopers on Thursday. Two soldiers were seriously' wounded in the fight and one of them died later in hospital. The police said that Hughes, whose identity was withheld until Saturday, was
the leader of a highlytrained guerrilla unit thought to be responsible for a series of booby-trap bomb attacks over the last two years. The attacks have killed more than a dozen policemen and soldiers, injuring many others. In Portadown, a 40-year-old man survived a doorstep; assassination bid by inches on Thursday. The man, a Protestant, answered a knock at the front door of his home and was confronted by two masked men. He managed to close the door but was hit in the side by a bullet. A police source said he was taken to hospital but believed not to be in danger.
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