THE IRA said last night that it had murdered a soldier who was shot by
a sniper in Northern Ireland earlier in the day.
The unmarried private in his early-20s died from a single shot fired
while he was on foot patrol in the centre of the village of Keady, south
Armagh.
It was the latest in a series of one-shot killings carried out by the
IRA since March 1990 in which eight soldiers and policemen have died.
The killing came as John Major and his Irish counterpart Albert
Reynolds prepared for a tough meeting on the Irish peace process in
Dublin today and as the war of words between the British Government and
Sinn Fein deepened.
Sinn Fein's president Gerry Adams described the soldier's death as
regrettable.
A bomb exploded later in Belfast but no one was hurt.
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