Fearful Mail Carriers Go on Strike
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Catholic mail carriers went on strike Saturday in Londonderry over fears they could be targeted in revenge for the latest killing of a Protestant.
In a related development, police released without charge five suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents who had been arrested on suspicion of involvement in Thursday’s killing of David Caldwell, a Protestant who had been helping to renovate a British army facility in Londonderry.
Caldwell, 51, died after picking up a booby-trapped lunch box. It was the first lethal attack to be blamed on IRA dissidents in four years. In response, Protestant militants threatened a “military response” against Catholics.
Union leaders representing Royal Mail workers in Londonderry said one of their Catholic members who delivers mail on the city’s predominantly Protestant east side had been issued a death threat Friday.
They decided no mail would be delivered until after an emergency meeting Monday.
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