The World - News from Oct. 13, 1986

A mortar shell fired at a joint police-army post in Northern Ireland killed a reserve policeman and wounded two passers-by, police reported. The outlawed Irish Republican Army, in a statement to the media, claimed responsibility for the Saturday night attack in west Belfast. Meanwhile, London’s Observer newspaper reported that an undercover British security unit functioned like a “death squad” in Northern Ireland and killed six unarmed people, including five suspected terrorists, in 1982. The paper said the unit was part of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the province’s Protestant-dominated police force. Belfast police would not comment on the charges.