Mother of six dies in rifle, grenade attack

Press, 21 April 1979, Page 8

Mother of six dies in rifle, grenade attack

NZPA-Reuter Armagh (Northern Ireland) Irish guerrillas have killed a woman prison officer and badly wounded three others in a rifle and grenade attack outside the Armagh women’s prison. In another attack in Belfast, the Northern Ireland capital, a British Army cadet force officer died and a cadet was hurt when their patrol came under fire in the Roman Catholic Falls district. Four members of the British-ruled province’s police force died on Tuesday when their LandRover was blown to pieces by a 500 kg boobytrap on a lonely lane close

to the Irish Republic border. In the latest attack a blue car drove slowly past the four women officers as they left the prison. A gunman in the back seat opened up with a rifle and hurled a handgrenade. The police said the back windshield had been specially removed. The woman who died was the mother of six children. The Provisional Irish Republican Army had promised daily violence during the British election campaign — in which Northern Ireland is not an issue because the two main parties have an agreed policy.