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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