WORLD IN BRIEF : NORTHERN IRELAND : 5 Catholics Slain as Violence Mounts
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Five Roman Catholics were shot to death on the bloodiest day this year in Northern Ireland’s conflict. Protestant extremists killed four Catholic workers and seriously wounded one in the seaside town of Castlerock. The Ulster Freedom Fighters, an outlawed group, claimed responsibility. Another Catholic was killed in Belfast in a suspected shooting by Protestants. Meanwhile, a second child died from injuries suffered last weekend in an Irish Republican Army attack in England.
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