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15/05/2009
Fresh Arrest Over Massereene Barracks Murders
It has just emerged that a 44-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers (pictured) at Massereene Barracks in Antrim.
The man was arrested in Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, on Friday morning at the same time as related searches were being carried out in Pomeroy and Dungannon, both in Co Tyrone.
Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, were shot dead as they collected pizzas outside the base in March - just hours before they were due to fly out for frontline duties in Afghanistan.
Five other people, including two delivery men, were injured in the deadly attack for which one man, Lurgan-based dissident republican Colin Duffy, has been charged.
As well as two counts of murder, he is also accused of five counts of attempted murder and one of possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
At the time, 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, Co Armagh.
The victim was Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, a married man with children from the Banbridge area of County Down.
(BMcC/JM)
The man was arrested in Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, on Friday morning at the same time as related searches were being carried out in Pomeroy and Dungannon, both in Co Tyrone.
Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, were shot dead as they collected pizzas outside the base in March - just hours before they were due to fly out for frontline duties in Afghanistan.
Five other people, including two delivery men, were injured in the deadly attack for which one man, Lurgan-based dissident republican Colin Duffy, has been charged.
As well as two counts of murder, he is also accused of five counts of attempted murder and one of possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
At the time, 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, Co Armagh.
The victim was Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, a married man with children from the Banbridge area of County Down.
(BMcC/JM)
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