The World - News from June 5, 1988
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An off-duty Ulster soldier, Lance Cpl. Michael Darcy, 28, was shot dead outside his home in Northern Ireland. Police said the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting to force an end to British rule in the province, claimed responsibility for the attack. Darcy, a member of the mainly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment, was shot in the back several times by a gunman outside his home in Castlederg, 65 miles west of Belfast. He was the eighth UDR soldier killed this year in guerrilla attacks.
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