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Police investigating the Dunmurry car bomb attack have made an arrest. In a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, the PSNI said detectives from their Terrorism Investigation Unit had made the arrest. The statement added: “Following searches this morning, Tuesday 28 Read More …
An explosive device in a car that detonated outside a police station on the outskirts of Belfast was “sent to kill officers”, the chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board has said. Forensic officers were examining the burnt-out vehicle on Read More …
A security alert in the Canning Place area of north Belfast has now ended. Local policing Sergeant Kelly said: “A suspected pipe bomb was found at the front of a residential property on Sunday morning, 12th April.“ A number of Read More …
Police confirmed that the suspicious object discovered at the Workman Avenue peace gate was an elaborate hoax. The alert began around 11:45am, leading to the evacuation of residents and closure of nearby roads. Ammunition Technical Officers carried out a controlled Read More …
Irish nationalist militants were likely behind the hijacking and placing of an improvised explosive device in a food delivery vehicle that was ordered to drive to a Northern Irish police station before the device was made safe, police said on Read More …
A fresh appeal for information has been made over the killing of a former police officer and his wife by a car bomb in 1990. James Sefton, 65, and his wife Ellen, 66, were killed when a booby trap device Read More …
A man accused of storing explosives in his south Belfast home is not ideologically driven or linked to terrorism, the High Court heard today. Dangerous chemicals and an improvised grenade were discovered during a major security alert at Radoslaw Kuc’s Read More …
Irish phone companies were “unwilling” to take part in an early 2000s scheme to temporarily block networks in a bid to prevent bombs being set off in Northern Ireland, according to previously confidential documents. Authorities in Northern Ireland and the Read More …
A man in Northern Ireland charged with terror offences linked to a cross-border police investigation into a planned attack on a Galway mosque has been denied bail. Connor Pollock, 38, from Croob Park, in Ballynahinch, Co Down, appeared via videolink Read More …
A number of homes were evacuated following the discovery of a pipe-bomb in West Belfast. Emergency services are currently at the scene in the Areema Drive area of Dunmurry. A pSNI spokesperson said: “Our officers attended the scene, along with Read More …
The discovery of four improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Co Down has been linked to a cross-border far-right pipe-bomb plot. The bombs were discovered during a PSNI operation carried out under the Terrorism Act in Annalong, Co Down, on Wednesday. Read More …
Two men have been charged in connection with the discovery of a suspected explosive device in the Irish Republic last year. Police arrested the pair, aged 44 and 49, in Fermanagh and Tyrone on Tuesday night. They were charged with Read More …
The first minister has described the discovery of a viable explosive device outside a Sinn Féin constituency office as an “attack on democracy”. The pipe bomb-type device was left at the office shared by Newry and Armagh MP Dáire Hughes Read More …
The PSNI has carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object in Co Londonderry. Army Technical Officers (ATOs) were called to the scene of the incident in Coleraine on Monday following reports of a suspicious object in the area. Read More …
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and making explosives after a security alert in Belfast. Police were searching a property at Bentham Drive, off Sandy Row in the city yesterday when they found several suspicious objects. Army bomb Read More …
A car has been destroyed in a late night petrol bomb attack in Co Down. The vehicle was set light in the Castelwellan Road area of Banbridge in what police believe was a petrol bomb attack on Tuesday evening, August Read More …
One man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances as residents were forced to spend the night away from their homes after a security alert in Co Tyrone. Emergency services were called to Read More …
The police are appealing for information after a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a house in Coleraine, County Londonderry. The incident happened on Maple Drive at about 01:30 BST on Wednesday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland Read More …
A house belonging to a self-styled loyalist pastor has been targeted in an overnight petrol bomb attack. The property, in the Forthriver Road area of Glencairn. belongs to Clifford Peeples, who was jailed for possession of explosives with intent to Read More …
An explosive device and a number of other items have been seized by police in south Armagh. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said officers recovered and made safe an improvised explosive device, and removed a number of items Read More …