Sands’ death marked
NZPA-AP Belfast Youths hurled stones, bottles and petrol bombs and set fire to buses in four cities across Northern Ireland yesterday, the third anniversary of the death of an Irish nationalist hunger striker, Bobby Sands. Four policemen and three youths were injured during several hours of disturbances in Portadown, Newry in County Down, Londonderry and Belfast, the police reported. Sands, a convicted Irish Republican Army guerrilla who was elected a member of the British Parliament, died on May 5, 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of a hunger strike in the Maze prison, near Belfast.
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Press, 7 May 1984, Page 6
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