IRA Dissidents Blamed for Deadly Bomb Attack
From Times Wire Reports
Police blamed Irish Republican Army dissidents for killing a Protestant construction worker with a bomb, the first fatal attack tied to them in four years.
David Caldwell died after opening a booby-trapped lunch box at the decommissioned British army base in Londonderry.
No group claimed responsibility, but police arrested three people with suspected dissident IRA links. Police sources said the attack was most likely carried out by the Real IRA, the group behind a 1998 bombing in Omagh that killed 29.
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