Masked Men Burn Train in N. Ireland
Attackers waylaid and burned a passenger train Tuesday in a third day of violence over Protestant marches in this province.
Sparked by Protestants’ annual march through Roman Catholic areas of the town of predominantly Protestant Portadown over the weekend, the conflict showed no sign of letting up in advance of Saturday’s big march through Londonderry.
In Newry, about 35 miles southwest of Belfast, the provincial capital, masked men claiming to be Irish Republican Army members boarded a Dublin-to-Belfast train, ordered passengers out and set it afire.
“They ran on to the train and then they just started to order people off and broke a few windows. Some of them had guns,” passenger Kay Sheehey said.
Earlier Tuesday, an attacker shot and wounded a police officer on Garvaghy Road, the main thoroughfare in the Catholic enclave of Portadown, about 25 miles southwest of Belfast.
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