The World : IRA Bomb Kills 4 Officers

An Irish Republican Army bomb blew up a patrol car near Ulster’s border with the Irish Republic, killing four police officers and slightly wounding five civilians. The bomb, hidden in a truck parked on a country road near Newry, apparently was set off by remote control as the car escorted a Belfast-bound security van carrying cash. Police said a bus taking handicapped children on an outing drove past shortly before the explosion. The slain officers were from the Newry station, where nine policemen died in a mortar attack by the outlawed IRA in February.