The World - News from July 27, 1987
British army experts defused two 300-pound land mines found near a busy crossing between Ireland and Northern Ireland, police said. Authorities acted after the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland, issued a statement saying it had abandoned the mines in a ditch near Castlederg, 80 miles west of Belfast. The same day, police in Ireland found an underground bunker containing one of the largest IRA explosive dumps discovered in recent years, police said. The bunker, near the town of Dundalk a few miles from the border, contained a ton of homemade explosives.
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