Man held in soldier murders probe

19/01/2010 - 09:37:29

Police investigating the murders of two soldiers in the North arrested a 44-year-old man today.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the man was arrested in the Toomebridge area of Co Antrim.

He is being questioned over the murders of the two soldiers and the attempted murders of five other people in a dissident republican gun attack at the Massereene Barracks in Co Antrim last March.

Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey died in the gun attack.

Two men have been charged with the murders.

The man detained by police is being questioned at Antrim PSNI station.


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