The World - News from Aug. 5, 1988
Four IRA gunmen fired more than 150 bullets and killed two Protestant men returning home from maintenance jobs at a police station in the Northern Ireland town of Belleek, near the Irish Republic border. Police said that the outlawed Irish Republican Army, which had threatened any contractors working on police or army installations, claimed responsibility for that attack. The IRA has killed four members of Britain’s security forces this week--three in attacks in Northern Ireland and one in the bombing of an army barracks in north London. Forty-two people were injured.
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