Fatal Blast Rips Barn in IRA Area
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A powerful explosion ripped apart a barn today in the Irish Republican Army’s “bandit country” and police said there were a number of deaths.
“We found body parts but the explosion was so powerful we don’t know how many people were killed,” a police spokesman said. Police sources said the explosion apparently occurred prematurely while an IRA squad was preparing a bomb attack.
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