Killing blamed on I.R.A.
NZPA Londonderry The body of a man who had been shot twice in the head was found on a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Londonderry yesterday.
Police sources said the killing had “all the hallmarks” of an execution by the outlawed Irish Republican Army’s Provisional wing. The police said that none of Northern Ireland's extremist organisations had claimed responsibility for the killing. But the I.R.A. traditionally shoots informers in the head and has acknowledged executing four men this year they said who had betrayed them to security forces.
The killing raised the known death toll from more than 12 years of sectarian and political bloodletting to at least 2154. So far this year 84 people have been killed. The police earlier reported an abortive assassination bid against a senior British Army officer in Belfast. The officer was not identified for security reasons, but the police said a booby-trap bomb was found in his car parked outside his home in Belfast’s fashionable Malone Road district.
The bomb was defused by military explosives experts after an all-night operation.
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