WORLD IN BRIEF : NORTHERN IRELAND : Massive IRA Bomb Blast Injures 66
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Sixty-six people were injured when a 2,000-pound IRA bomb demolished a Northern Ireland police station, virtually destroyed a Catholic school and left a 40-foot crater in a road, police said. “This is an indescribable evil,” Northern Ireland Police Chief Hugh Annesley said of the Irish Republican Army’s bombing blitz after visiting the devastated border town of Craigavon. It was one of the largest bombs set off in Ulster by the IRA, which has escalated bombings in defiance of the deployment of 2,000 extra British troops.
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