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Hunger striker near death stirs Belfast sectarian risk
Francis Hughes an IRA hunger striker nears death on day 59, reportedly blind and nearly deaf as violence rises. Protestants and Catholics warn of possible full scale clashes after Hughes’s death, amid night attacks with Molotov cocktails on Londonderry and Belfast police and army. Police report an IRA Provisional unit claiming a Ballymurphy sniper attack wounded two British soldiers guarding a Post Office convoy.
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