The World - News from Sept. 15, 1988

One of four British soldiers who shot and killed three unarmed Irish Republican Army guerrillas in Gibraltar last March denied that his commander sent the anti-terrorist unit to eliminate the guerrillas. The soldier testified on the seventh day of a Gibraltar coroner’s inquest into the March 6 shooting deaths of Sean Savage, 24, Mairead Farrell, 31, and Daniel McCann, 31. “Our only intention was to arrest (them),” said “Soldier B,” hidden from public view by a curtain for security reasons. A senior British intelligence officer previously testified that the soldiers believed the three were armed and were planning to set off a car bomb during a changing of the guard ceremony in Gibraltar. However, the three guerrillas proved to be unarmed when the soldiers opened fire.