Two soldiers were shot dead outside a military barracks in Northern Ireland last night by terrorists posing as pizza delivery men.
Four other people, at least two of them civilians, were wounded when they were hit by two bursts of automatic fire at Massereene Barracks, Antrim.
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The attack happened just 36 hours after Northern Ireland Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde confirmed that undercover soldiers had been called in to carry out surveillance operations on dissidents amid warnings that the threat against his officers and military personnel was at its highest for almost a decade. Witnesses reported hearing two long busts of gunfire as a car drove by the barracks.
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Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Last year dissident Republicans tried to kill PSNI officers in separate incidents in Derry City and Dungannon Co Tyrone.
Last month security forces also defused a 300lb bomb in Castlewellan Co Down which may have been intended for an attack on a nearby barracks.
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