Protestant Killed in Car Bombing

A small bomb exploded beneath the driver’s seat of a car near Belfast, killing the Protestant driver and engulfing the vehicle in flames. The bomb went off as Glen Greer, 28, drove away from his home in Bangor, 15 miles east of Belfast. It was the first political killing in the province in three months. Greer, who crawled from the burning vehicle but died later in a hospital, may have been targeted in a feud involving one or more of the region’s four pro-British Protestant paramilitary groups. Two of the groups are represented at multi-party negotiations on Northern Ireland’s future that resumed last month. No group claimed responsibility for the bomb.