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Families demand answers over British army shootings

TOP lawyer Michael Mansfield QC helped bereaved families relaunch a campaign for justice last night against the British army.

Five people, including three teenagers and a Catholic priest, were shot dead by British snipers at Springhill estate, Belfast, in 1972.

Forty-seven years later their relatives gathered at the Culturlann community centre on Falls Road to demand answers.

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