DUBLIN (AP) — The outlawed Irish Republican Army has apologized for its 1973 killing of a 9- year- old boy who stumbled across an IRA bomb while playing in his back yard.

The IRA issued its statement today after the victim’s parents called on Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander, to tell them who planted a bomb in their children’s play area and why.

The IRA statement didn’t offer that detail but said the group accepted responsibility and was “remorseful and profoundly sorry.”

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