Woman Dies in N. Ireland Bombing
A Protestant woman married to a Roman Catholic died Saturday after she tried to get rid of a pipe bomb thrown through her living room window, police said.
Police arrested five local Protestant extremists in connection with the attack, one of two overnight on homes in the Corcrain district of Portadown, a bitterly pro-British, Protestant town.
Both homes targeted belonged to mixed Protestant-Catholic couples. Such couples are frequently singled out for intimidation, particularly by militants trying to keep certain areas exclusively Protestant.
A brick crashed through Elizabeth O’Neill’s window, followed by the homemade bomb. O’Neill, 59, was killed as she tried to throw the device back out the window. Her husband wasn’t wounded.
A brick crashed through a window at a second home about 10 minutes later, but the bomb that followed fell short and detonated in the frontyard. No one was injured.
Two other pipe-bomb attacks early Saturday also missed intended Catholic targets.
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