The World - News from March 21, 1989
Gunmen killed two senior Northern Ireland police officers in an ambush near the Irish Republic, and the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. Chief Supt. Harry Breen and his deputy, Bob Buchanan, in charge of border security with the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were returning to Newry from a security meeting with Irish police chiefs across the border in Dundalk when they were shot, police said. In Belfast, gunmen stormed a house and killed David Braniff, 63, a Roman Catholic father of 13 as he and his wife, Mary, were saying their prayers.
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