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Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is reported to have been arrested in connection with the 1972 murder of a widowed mother of 10 children.
UK media, quoting Irish Republican sources, reported on Wednesday that Adams had been questioned over the death of 37-year-old Jean McConville, who was kidnapped in West Belfast and shot by the Irish Republican Army before being secretly buried in December, 1972.
Her body was later found on a beach in County Louth, Ireland, in 2003.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said that a 65-year-old man had been detained in connection with the investigation into the McConville murder after he presented himself at a police station in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Adams has previously denied having any involvement in the murder.
Jean McConville was dragged at gunpoint from her children at her flat just before Christmas 42 years ago and was "disappeared" by the Provisional IRA.
The IRA later admitted they had killed her for being an alleged informer for the British security forces.
The killing of McConville was one of the most notorious murders during 'the Troubles' between Irish nationalists and republicans, and British and Northern Irish police and security forces in Northern Ireland.
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