The World - News from June 25, 1987
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The Irish Republican Army, fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland, said it shot and killed a 30-year-old man whose hooded body was found in Belfast. Police said the unidentified man was “executed”--shot through the head with his hands tied behind him--because he was a police informer. The outlawed IRA also claimed responsibility for killing a police officer as he arrived for work at northern Belfast police headquarters. Robert Guthrie, 41, was the 11th policeman to be killed in Ulster this year.
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