Irish Republican dissident group says behind fatal shooting in Dublin - BBC


  • World
  • Tuesday, 09 Feb 2016

Police remove a body from the scene of a shooting at the Regency Hotel in Dublin, Ireland in this February 5, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/Files

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish nationalists opposed to Northern Ireland's peace process have told the BBC they were behind a fatal shooting last Friday at a Dublin hotel, saying it was retaliation for the killing of an ally in 2012.

One man was killed and two others wounded when gunmen dressed like special forces operatives opened fire with automatic weapons at a boxing weigh-in, an attack that shocked the country weeks before a Feb. 26 parliamentary election.

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