Police Arrest Suspects in Ulster Killings
Police arrested several men Friday in the killing of four Roman Catholic workmen by a Protestant extremist group.
A spokesman at the Royal Ulster Constabulary headquarters in Belfast said the men were picked up in Coleraine, near where the workmen were gunned down Thursday in Castlerock, 50 miles northwest of Belfast.
Police would not say how many suspects were being held.
The pro-British Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed responsibility for killing the four men and for shooting a Catholic teen-ager to death hours later in Belfast. The paramilitary group threatened more sectarian killings.
The killings brought fears of more Catholic deaths and possible reprisals by the Irish Republican Army against Protestants. The IRA said one of the four workmen was one of its members.
In Warrington, England, meanwhile, mourners crowded into a village church Friday for the funeral of a 3-year-old killed in an IRA bomb attack last Saturday.
The toddler was the youngest victim in 20 years of IRA attacks on the British mainland.
A 12-year-old also died of injuries from the attack.
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