A Northern Ireland police officer was shot and killed while on patrol Monday, police and politicians said, raising fears of a return to tit-for-tat violence just two days after IRA dissidents killed two British soldiers.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said a patrol was investigating suspicious activities in Craigavon, a religiously divided town southwest of Belfast, when the unit came under fire from a predominantly Irish Catholic area. The officer was pronounced dead in a nearby hospital.
A local Catholic politician, Dolores Kelly, warned that Northern Ireland could suffer a spiral of bloodshed if Protestant extremists _ who traditionally killed …
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