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Two hooded gunmen shot and killed a Northern Ireland policeman just moments after he delivered a busload of children to a tiny Armagh country school. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. Sgt. Frank Murphy, who was driving the bus for a friend, had just dropped off children at the school in Armagh, 45 miles west of Belfast, when his vehicle was ambushed, police said.
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