WORLD : Ex-Governor of Gibraltar Shot

Surgeons worked through the night to save a former governor of Gibraltar wounded in a hail of bullets fired at his home by suspected Irish nationalist guerrillas.

One surgeon said today they removed three bullets and “literally dozens” of bullet fragments from Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry, who as Gibraltar’s governor approved a controversial commando operation in which three unarmed Irish Republican Army guerrillas were killed.

Terry, 63, was in intensive care after a series of operations that lasted more than five hours.

Police said the attack bore the hallmarks of the IRA. They said Terry was reading Tuesday night when automatic fire was sprayed through a window. His wife, Betty, who was in another room, was slightly wounded.