The World - News from Aug. 9, 1988

Gunmen firing from a car shot and killed two Roman Catholics near Belfast, Northern Ireland, in a suspected revenge slaying by Protestants for a new round of attacks by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Witnesses said the assailants shot and killed Seamus Morris, 17, who was standing with friends on a street corner. The second victim was a beer deliveryman who was hit a short time later. The killers fled and their car was later found abandoned. Police sources and moderate Catholic leaders blamed the attack on Protestant extremists taking revenge for a series of IRA bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland, Britain and West Germany, which left six dead and 37 injured last week.