The World - News from March 7, 1988
Security forces in Gibraltar, the British colony at the southern tip of Spain, shot to death three suspected Irish Republican Army guerrillas. The three--two men and a woman--planned a bomb attack on a changing-of-the-guard ceremony Tuesday involving a British army regiment that had served in Northern Ireland a year ago, officials said. In Belfast, the IRA, which is seeking to drive the British out of Northern Ireland, issued a statement saying the victims were members of an IRA “active service unit.” Police later deactivated 1,100 pounds of explosives found in a car parked near the residence of the governor of Gibraltar, Peter Terry.
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