The World - News from Aug. 3, 1988
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A series of attacks by Irish Republican Army terrorists killed two people and wounded 24 others in a blitz against British-backed security forces in Northern Ireland, police said. What apparently was a land mine blew up a military vehicle in County Tyrone, wounding six part-time soldiers; a bomb exploded under a car in Lisburn, killing a policeman and wounding 18 people, and a gunman killed a part-time soldier in front of his wife and baby daughter in Belfast, police said. The attacks, which came a day after an explosion killed a British soldier and wounded nine others at an army barracks near London, were followed by IRA warnings that people should avoid British soldiers and bases.
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