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Five Soldiers Die in Northern Ireland Violence Blast and Shootings
Five soldiers were killed in Northern Ireland on Sunday as a land mine near Dungannon and an attack near Tullydonnel killed four soldiers and a fifth died in Omagh. A former Ulster Defence Regiment militiaman was shot dead in front of his son in Omagh. Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the Dungannon blast. other killings are under suspicion. The death toll in the decade of conflict reaches 1,989 with 38 soldiers killed this year and 327 since 1969.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Dungannon
Tullydonnel
Ulster Defense Regiment
Omagh
Irish Republican Army
Warrenpoint
Irish Republic
Earl Mountbatten
Donegal Bay
Ireland
Charles Haughey