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DUBLIN — A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland’s police force was killed when a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car, police and neighbors said.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack in the town of Omagh. But police and politicians universally blamed Irish Republican Army dissidents who have repeatedly planted bombs underneath the private cars of off-duty police officers, particularly new Catholic recruits, in a bid to stop cross-community support for law and order.
Until Saturday, such booby- trap attacks had maimed two officers but killed nobody.
