WORLD IN BRIEF : NORTHERN IRELAND : IRA’s Biggest Bomb Fails to Explode
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Irish Republican Army forced a kidnaped driver to deliver the biggest bomb it has ever used against British troops in Northern Ireland, police said. But the “human bomb” attack against a security checkpoint near Rosslea failed when the driver of a van packed with 3,300 pounds of explosives warned security forces, and only the detonator exploded. The driver and soldiers were unhurt.
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