The World - News from Oct. 5, 1989
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Two members of the Irish Republican Army shot and killed a Roman Catholic after mistaking him for a Protestant gunman, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said in Northern Ireland. The victim, James Henry Babbington, 52, was killed outside a primary school on his way to work, police said. In a statement to local news media, the predominantly Catholic IRA claimed it killed a gunman who was involved in several attacks against IRA members. The IRA statement gave a name of the purported victim, but it was not Babbington.
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