Three bomb attacks
NZPA . Belfast Bombs exploded at a - golf club, a country inn. and a hotel in Northern Ireland in an -apparently co-ordinated series of lunchtime attacks, the said. The bombings' were the first this year' in the province. The Irish Republican
Army brigade in south County Down said in a statement it was responsible for one of the bombings: at the Crown Hotel in Warrenpoint, County Down, where bombs started a serious fire. There were no reports of injuries in any of the bombings but damage was exten-
sive. the police said. A spokesman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Northern Ireland’s police force said the bombings may have been a reprisal for week-end police raids that netted 43 suspected terrorists and several weapons and explosive caches.
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