Train Bombed; IRA Claims Responsibility
Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland —
A bomb today blew up a section of a rail line and derailed a train in Northern Ireland, police said. There were no reports of injuries. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the blast.
Police said the bomb blew up sections of a rail line near Newry in County Down, five miles from the border with the Irish Republic. The blast blocked the main rail link between the British province and the Irish Republic.
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