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who ambushed them. Andrews, who happened to be celebrating his 41st birthday that day, died on the spot and his bodyguard later died at the hospital. Pirie-Gordon was not hit.
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and ordering the arrest of its members. His assassination was considered to represent a key point in the later phase of the
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