IRA Bomb Kills Taxi Driver and Hurts Daughter
A bomb, planted by the outlawed Irish Republican Army, killed a Protestant taxi driver and wounded his daughter Tuesday as the the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland entered its fourth decade.
Harry Dickie, 37, died when a bomb exploded under his red cab as he drove his 16-year-old daughter to school in the staunchly Protestant district of East Belfast.
Police said Dickie died instantly in the blast, which was triggered without warning shortly after he drove away from his home in a quiet cul-de-sac.
His daughter limped from the car with minor injuries.
The IRA, in a statement released in Belfast said it had killed Dickie, who was understood to have had close ties with the Ulster Defense Assn., a Protestant paramilitary group. The IRA said Dickie was “responsible for murder and mayhem against the nationalist community.”
He became the 2,778th victim since the IRA launched a violent campaign in 1969 to oust British troops from mostly Protestant Northern Ireland so it can be united with the mostly Catholic Irish Republic.
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