The World - News from Jan. 27, 1988

Six people in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast were wounded in a car-bomb blast blamed on the Irish Republican Army. The car bomb exploded outside a police station in what police said was the IRA’s second big attack of 1988 on British security forces there. Three policeman and three civilians were treated for shock and minor injuries after the blast, which destroyed the Dunmurry station’s protective wall, wrecked cars and shattered windows in a nearby shopping center. The explosion followed an IRA grenade attack Monday against a police Land Rover that killed one officer and wounded two others. Security officials said the IRA used a new armor-piercing grenade in that attack.