A MOTHER of four was shot dead in Belfast yesterday during a terrorist
attack on a security patrol.
Mrs Isobel Leyland, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who was
visiting her elderly mother, was hit in the back by a bullet when a gang
sprayed Flax Street in the Ardoyne area with gunfire. A man in his 60s
was hit in the arm.
The terrorists' target was a joint Army and police patrol. One bullet
struck a Land-Rover but no-one was hurt.
Mrs Leyland, 41, had been due to return to England last night after a
10-day visit.
Her husband, Brian, flew to Northern Ireland last night with their
children, John, 21, Gerard, 18, Catherine, 14, and Rebecca, 12.
At the family home in Whitworth, Rochdale, friend Paul Jones said:
''The sad thing is that Isobel left Northern Ireland because of the
troubles.''
Police in Belfast said gunmen took over a house in JamaicaStreet and
mounted their attack from a bedroom window from a range of 150 yards.
The IRA is thought to have been responsible. Earlier this month, the
IRA killed a soldier in a similar ambush.
Two men were admitted to hospital in Belfast last night after each was
shot in the right leg in what appeared to be a terrorist punishment
shooting. Police said the men were shot in a loyalist area in the west
of the city.
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