RUC holds two in north Belfast

Detectives were last night questioning a man and a woman in connection with a number of recent terrorist incidents in Northern…

Detectives were last night questioning a man and a woman in connection with a number of recent terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland. They were arrested after police raided homes in Ardoyne, north Belfast, the RUC said. It is understood they were being interviewed about an armed IRA display at a Sinn Fein rally in Ardoyne last Tuesday and a grenade attack on an army patrol in the same area last month.

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