World IN BRIEF : NORTHERN IRELAND : Britain Blocks Suit Over 3 IRA Deaths
From Times staff and Wire reports
The British government has blocked a bid by the Northern Ireland families of three IRA guerrillas shot to death by British commandos in Gibraltar two years ago to take legal action over the killings. The relatives had sought to claim damages from the British Defense Ministry for what they said were unlawful killings of the three Irish Republican Army activists. The three were slain in March, 1988, by British commandos who believed they were about to set off a car bomb.
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