The World - News from April 13, 1989
A car bomb exploded next to a police station in Ulster, killing a young Roman Catholic woman and injuring 31 civilians and nine police officers, authorities said. No person or group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, in the coastal town of Warrenpoint in County Down, but suspicion fell on the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Police said the blast ignited gas cylinders in the yard next to the police station and touched off further explosions and a huge fire. The Royal Ulster Constabulary identified the dead woman as Joanne Reilly, 20, an employee of a hardware store next to the station. The IRA is fighting to unite the province with the predominantly Catholic Irish Republic.
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