IRA killers 'cheered after ambush'

The IRA killers of two top-ranking RUC officers cheered as they fled the murder scene, an eye-witness has claimed.

IRA killers 'cheered after ambush'
Fri, 10 Jun, 2011 - 18:34
Colm Kelpie

The IRA killers of two top-ranking RUC officers cheered as they fled the murder scene, an eye-witness has claimed.

Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan were ambushed and murdered in Co Armagh in March 1989 as they returned by car from a meeting over the border in the Irish Republic.

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