More than 40 years after unarmed civil-rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland, police have made an arrest in the incident.
Investigators detained a 66-year-old man in County Antrim on Tuesday in connection with the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of 14 people, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. The man, whose name was not released, was questioned at a police station in Belfast. A police statement quoted Detective Chief Inspector Ian Harrison, the officer leading the investigation, as saying the arrest “marked a new phase in the overall investigation which would continue for some time.”
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