The World - News from May 3, 1988

Dutch police were reported stymied in their efforts to track down Irish Republican Army attackers who killed three British servicemen and wounded three others. “We have no indication as to the description (of the attackers), nor indications of their escape route or their means of escape,” a police spokesman told reporters in Roermond in southeastern Holland, site of one of the attacks. The British Defense Ministry said the victims, all based just across the border in West Germany, were unarmed and off duty. The attacks were believed to be in reprisal for the March 6 killing by British soldiers of three IRA activists in Gibraltar.