WORLD : Nun Dies in N. Ireland Bombing
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A huge bomb exploded today on the outskirts of the border city of Armagh, killing a Roman Catholic nun and three policeman, police said.
The murder of the nun was thought to be the first time a nun has been killed in 21 years of sectarian violence in British-run Northern Ireland.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell on the Irish Republican Army. The killing of a nun would be seen widely as a grave embarrassment to the mainly Catholic IRA.
The bomb, planted in a drain beneath a road, blew apart an unmarked police car, instantly killing the three officers traveling in it. The nun, who died later in hospital from severe injuries, was traveling with a woman social worker in a separate car caught in the blast.
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