The World - News from May 29, 1988

Several civilians and soldiers were slightly injured in a mortar attack on an Ulster Defense Regiment base in County Tyrone, police in Northern Ireland said. A spokesman for the regiment--a locally recruited, mainly Protestant unit--said it was the second time in a week that the base in Cookstown, west of Belfast, had come under fire. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, similar to past assaults mounted by the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland.