Catholic Found Slain on Road in N. Ireland
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The body of a 62-year-old Roman Catholic man was found on a Northern Ireland country road Tuesday after what police said was a sectarian murder.
He had been abducted from a club of the Gaelic Athletic Assn., an Irish nationalist and Catholic sports group, Monday night and was shot after a struggle, said police at Randalstown, scene of the crime.
It was thought to be the third sectarian killing this year after the shooting of a Catholic father of nine in Belfast in April and the beating to death of a Catholic in Portadown earlier this month.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the killing, but Protestant loyalists were under suspicion.
Loyalists, so-called because of their allegiance to Britain, have been blamed for a series of attacks on Catholic or Irish nationalist targets in recent months since their Irish Republican Army foes ended a truce in 1996.
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