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12 March 1998 Edition

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Back issue: Armagh attack recalls election slaying

A 33-year-old Armagh man was lying dangerously ill in hospital on Wednesday night of this week having been gunned down in the city earlier in the day in a gun attack which bears a very strong resemblance to one in which another Armagh man, Peter Corrigan, was slain last October.

Kevin Trainer, from the Drumarg estate, who is married with three children, aged four years, three years and five weeks, was walking along Railway Street, returning from the unemployment exchange, shortly after 11.30 am, when ginmen opened fire on him, with what was believed to be a sub-machine gun, from a passing car. He was hit five times in the lower part of the body and taken to Craigavon Area Hospital.

The gunmen sped off along Lonsdale Gardens and the car, a dark blue Ford Escort, was later abandoned in a car park at Lonsdale Street. Kevin Trainor is an active republican locally and had been a Sinn Fein worker in the October assembly elections, manning a polling booth at Milford, just outside the city. In the mid 70s he served a term of imprisonment in Long Kesh.

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