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Forensic experts search the M62 motorway near Batley, Yorkshire, on Mon day, for clues after a bomb exploded in a bus taking soldiers and their fami lies back to their base. The blast killed 11 people. - AAP-AP cable picture. Help
Forensic experts search the M62 motorway near Batley, Yorkshire, on Mon
day, for clues after a bomb exploded in a bus taking soldiers and their fami
lies back to their base. The blast killed 11 people. - AAP-AP cable picture.
BUS BOMBING
Houses raided
during search
LONDON, Tuesday
(AAP-Reutcr). - Police
raided houses in north
west England overnight,
hunting for the bombers
who blew up a bus yes
terday morning, killing
11 people.
Responsibility for the
blast has already been pin
ned on Irish extremists.
The Secretary of State
for Defence, Mr Gilmour,
said on radio yesterday he
believed the Irish Republi
can Army was "likely to
blame".
There were no reports
of any arrests.
The main ccnlre of in
vestigation is the bus ter
minal, in Manchester,
where waiting passengers
might have seen the bomb
ers place the 501b of ex
plosives - in a suitcase or
parcel - in' the back of
the coach.
The explosion provoked
demands in Parliament
that Irish citizens crossing
to Britain carry identi
fication and passports. At
present none are required.
Mr Gilmour said the
subject was under review.
BELFAST, Tuesday.
(AAP). - Three men
sealed the wall of a Bel
fast factory yesterday,
held three watchmen at
gunpoint and stole 3,0001b
of chemicals used for
making explosives, United
Press International re
ported. Later a caller say
ing he was "Captain Black
of the Ulster " Freedom
Fighters", a Protestant ex
tremist group, telephoned
Belfast newspapers to
claim responsibility.
DUBLIN, Tuesday,
(AAP-Reuter). - A fugi
tive Roman Catholic priest
from Scotland, Father
Bartholomew Burns, want
ed for possession of explo
sives, has won his fight in
the High Court to stay in
the Irish Republic on
political grounds.
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