Seven deaths, 135 shootings blamed on loyalists

LOYALISTS paramilitaries were responsible for seven deaths and 135 shootings in the North in the last year, the British Government revealed yesterday.

Security Minister Jane Kennedy said they were also behind 41 bombing incidents involving devices which either exploded or were defused.

The number of casualties of paramilitary style shootings was 107, and there were 110 casualties of paramilitary style beatings, she added.