Detectives investigating the biggest mass killing committed by British troops in Northern Ireland, the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, have arrested on suspicion of murder one of the soldiers who opened fire that day.
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A special police unit probing killings from the Northern Ireland conflict, the Legacy Investigation Branch, said it was interrogating the 66-year-old former member of the Parachute Regiment, the elite force that shot to death 13 Catholic protesters in the Bogside district of Londonderry. Catholic leaders and lawyers representing relatives of the dead welcomed the arrest and said they expected more retired soldiers to be arrested.
British soldiers take cover while dispersing protesters with tear gas in Londonderry on Jan. 30, 1972, which became known as Bloody Sunday.That British government-empowered commission also found that the former lance corporal and other soldiers had lied under oath when claiming to have targeted figures holding guns and grenades.
The former lance corporal is suspected of firing the shots that killed up to three of Bloody Sunday's dead: dockworker William Nash, 19, who was shot in the chest; and shop clerk John Young, 17, and bartender Michael McDaid, 20, who both were shot in the head.
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