Homemade grenade blasts police in Northern Ireland

Thursday, September 6, 2001

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Schoolgirls screamed and their parents ducked after Protestant extremists hurled a homemade grenade at them Wednesday, the third day of a hate-fueled confrontation outside a Catholic elementary school in Northern Ireland.

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