The World - News from April 8, 1986
Irish nationalists and Protestant extremists attacked police in Northern Ireland on the seventh straight day of violence against the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the British province. Four gunmen believed to be Irish Republican Army guerrillas opened fire from a hijacked taxi, seriously wounding a policeman in Londonderry. In Belfast, a gunman also believed to be from the IRA fired several shots into an armored police jeep. And Protestant militants threw gasoline bombs at the homes of four police officers and two former officers, badly damaging one house.
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