The World - News from Dec. 2, 1986
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The outlawed Irish Republican Army apologized for a botched mortar attack that missed a police station in Newry, Northern Ireland, and instead hit houses and shops, injuring 39 civilians. “We have left ourselves open to justified criticism” from the injured and their families, the IRA said in a statement released in Newry. The IRA, which is fighting to end British rule in Ulster, said its “engineers” will investigate why the mortar rounds overshot the target. A 1985 IRA mortar attack on the Newry station killed nine policemen.
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