Funeral for Northern Ireland prison officer killed in rare slaying to take place next week
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Northern Ireland police say the funeral for an off-duty prison officer killed in a rare slaying will take place next week.
A gunman in a passing car shot a 52-year-old prison guard, David Black, as he drove to work Thursday on Northern Ireland's main highway.
Police have arrested three suspected Irish Republican Army militants, including Colin Duffy, a prominent Irish republican who has successfully defended himself against a series of murder charges dating back to 1993.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}All three men remain in police custody.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is among those to have condemned the slaying, the first killing of a prison officer in the British territory since 1993.
Police said on Saturday that Black's funeral would take place Tuesday at Molesworth Presbyterian Church in Cookstown.