World IN BRIEF : NORTHERN IRELAND : ‘Troubles’ Milestone: Deaths Reach 3,000
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
It was a grim milestone when a gunman barged onto a bus near Belfast last week and killed Hugh McKibben. The young athlete became the 3,000th fatality in 23 years of Northern Ireland’s “troubles.” If the British-ruled province no longer has the bloodiest strife in Europe, the conflict remains one of the most intractable. The British government has had troops on constant deployment in Northern Ireland for a generation--one of them became the 3,001st victim a day after McKibben’s death.
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