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Arresto per attacco a Massereene Barracks, Antrim

Man arrested over soldier murders

A 44-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim in March.

Massereene Barracks ad AntrimThe man was arrested in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, on Friday morning.

Related searches are also being carried out in Pomeroy and Dungannon, both in County Tyrone.

Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, were shot dead as they collected pizzas outside the base.

Five other people, including two delivery men, were injured in the attack.

One man, Lurgan-based dissident republican Colin Duffy, has been charged with the murders.

The Real IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place two days before a police officer was shot dead by the Continuity IRA in Craigavon, County Armagh.

He was Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, a married man with children from the Banbridge area of County Down.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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