The World : Killed Supporter, IRA Says
The Irish Republican Army acknowledged that its members killed one of their own supporters, mistaking him for a policeman. The slaying was one of two last week that the IRA called cases of mistaken identity. In a statement sent to news media in Belfast, the IRA said its guerrillas, in error, targeted the car of Kieran Murray, 28, an election worker for Sinn Fein, the outlawed IRA’s legal political arm, thinking it belonged to a policeman. It extended “deepest sympathy” to Murray’s family. Earlier, IRA gunmen mistakenly killed a retired shopkeeper.
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