The World - News from April 5, 1987

Three people, including a police officer, were killed and a second officer was wounded in separate incidents related to Northern Ireland’s sectarian violence, police said. The officer died in an attack against a police station in the town of Ballynahinch, south of Belfast, believed by police to have been mounted by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Another officer was wounded in the assault. Earlier, a part-time soldier was shot to death by three masked men in a village in County Fermanagh, close to the Irish Republic border. In Belfast, an IRA activist was shot dead at his home.