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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Two soldiers dead in N Ireland army base shooting: police AFP - Sunday, March 8 BELFAST (AFP) - - Two soldiers died and four people were wounded in a shooting at a British army base in Northern Ireland, police said, raising fears the province's troubled past may have returned. ADVERTISEMENT The attack took place at around 2140 GMT at the headquarters of the Royal Engineers in Northern Ireland at Massereene, northwest of Belfast, police said. The Ministry of Defence confirmed the two dead were soldiers, while police added that two of the four injured, who are reported to be in a serious condition, were also military personnel. Reports suggested gunmen armed with machine guns entered the barracks as pizzas were delivered to soldiers and fired up to 40 shots in two long bursts of gunfire. "I understand that gunmen with machine guns entered the barracks... and opened fire," Democratic Unionist lawmaker Jeffrey Donaldson told BBC television, adding they got in "possibly in the guise of a pizza delivery van". Others with knowledge of the situation suggested gunmen followed a pizza delivery vehicle as it was let on to the base. The shootings, the first of their kind in Northern Ireland for years, have raised fears for the stability of the devolved power-sharing government, which unites former foes from across the Protestant and Catholic divide. "This has taken us back into bad, bad old days that we have long since left behind us," Thomas Burns, a lawmaker with the nationalist SDLP told BBC television. "Everybody is very concerned that this will cause the power-sharing executive to wobble a bit." He added that the finger of suspicion was pointing at Republican dissidents, although no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Downing Street office condemned the "terrible" attack. "In recent days action has been taken to increase security in Northern Ireland," she said. "This is because of the increased threat from those who, even at this late stage, wish to ignore the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the people of Northern Ireland and attempt to derail the peace process." Meanwhile, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has postponed an imminent official trip to the United States. Northern Ireland endured three decades of civil unrest known as the Troubles in which around 3,000 people were killed. The violence largely ended with the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. A deal was agreed in 2007 in which the mainly Protestant Democratic Unionists, which want Northern Ireland to stay part of Britain, and Catholic Sinn Fein, which calls for integration into the Republic of Ireland, agreed to form a power-sharing government which has devolved power from London. Paramilitary attacks in Northern Ireland are now relatively rare compared to the height of the Troubles. But the last 18 months have seen an upsurge in violent activity from Republicans opposed to the peace process, including more than a dozen unsuccessful murder bids against police officers. In January, a 300 pound (136 kilogramme) car bomb was found near a school in Castlewellan in County Down. A telephone warning claimed the bomb was originally intended for a nearby British army base but had been abandoned. British soldiers have not patrolled in Northern Ireland for two years as part of the peace process but the army still has a significant garrison presence there. Northern Ireland's top policeman Sir Hugh Orde said last week he had called in specialist support from the British military to deal with the high and rising threat from dissident Republicans against police. Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward labelled the attack "an act of criminal barbarism", adding: "The people who did this will be pursued and they can be assured that they will never be able stop political progress in Northern Ireland." 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