The World - News from July 13, 1987

An Irish Republican Army gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd of Protestants in Belfast, killing one man, authorities said. Protestant and Catholic youths were hurling rocks at each other along the Northern Ireland city’s “peace line” fence when the gunman opened fire, police and witnesses said. Alan McQuiston, 46, who witnesses said was shepherding children away from the fence, was killed and a 16-year-old boy was wounded, police said. The death brought to 59 the number of people killed in sectarian violence in the province this year--compared to 61 for all of 1986.