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Troubles flare in Ireland

NZPA Belfast . Stones and petrol bombs ■ were hurled at the police in f Londonderry and Strabane yesterday in the second . straight day of violence on the streets of Northern Ire- ; land. The police reported no ' injuries in any of the inci- i dents, which followed the i second anniversay of the , death of the I.R.A. hunger j striker, Bobby Sands. ; About 80 to 100 youths : hurled missiles at the police in Strabane, where a car • was hijacked and a store set : on fire. Petrol bombs were ' thrown at fire-fighters and ; the police fired plastic , bullets to disperse the ; crowd. Petrol bombs and home- i made blast bombs — cans 1 filled with explosives — ; were thrown at police ; patrols in Londonderry. I Sands, an imprisoned guerrilla of the Irish Repub- 1 lican Army, died on May 5, 1981.

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Press, 7 May 1983, Page 10

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Troubles flare in Ireland Press, 7 May 1983, Page 10

Troubles flare in Ireland Press, 7 May 1983, Page 10