‘Friendly’ Belfast shoot-out
NZPA Belfast Police and soldiers mistaking one another for terrorists opened fire as several killings stirred fears of a new wave of violence in Northern Ireland.
Plainclothes police in a car rammed a car carrying a team of undercover soldiers. Officials said at least 20 shots were fired.
“Luckily, no-one was hurt,” a police spokesman said. “But people are a little edgy.”
The deaths of two Catholics and a Protestant yesterday came amid tension after elections last week for a Provisional Assembly that sharpened divisions between the feuding communities.
A group' calling itself the Protestant Action Force took responsibility for killing one of the Catholics, a father of 11 children, and warned that it would terrorise the terrorists, the almost exclusively Catholic Provisional Irish Republican Army. A second Catholic was killed and the I.R.A. said that it killed a militia sergeant who had been abducted.
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