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No letup in Irish rioting after Sands death
Rioting continued in Northern Ireland as thousands viewed Bobby Sands' coffin at his family home. In prisons, hunger strike inmates weakened while 70 of 440 IRA prisoners considered joining. Britain rejected political prisoner status for the hunger strikers. 22 injured as clashes flared in Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry. Police and troops faced gasoline bombs, a police car and army patrol were fired on, with a Belfast university hall damaged by fire. A Tyrone supermarket was bombed and vehicles were hijacked amid further violence across the region.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Bobby Sands
Maze
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
Labor Party
Londonderry
West Belfast
Queen's University
County Tyrone
Dungannon
Irish Republic
Elliott
Sands
George Elliot
Jack Donnelly
Ulster Defense Regiment