The world - news from july 2, 1989
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Gunmen shot and killed an off-duty police officer and wounded his 80-year-old mother while he was visiting her at her home in the Northern Ireland town of Garvagh, 40 miles northwest of
Belfast. The woman was wounded in the abdomen. The officer, who was due to retire this month, had been in the Royal Ulster Constabulary for 34 years and normally carried out courthouse
duties in Belfast. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on the outlawed Irish Republican Army, which has targeted security forces in its guerrilla campaign to
drive the British out of Northern Ireland. MORE TO READ