![]() “Our most prominent and likely line of inquiry,” Chief Supt Nigel Goddard told reporters on Monday, is that dissident republicans were responsible, specifically the New IRA. On Sunday a delivery driver’s vehicle was hijacked and he was forced at gunpoint to drive an “elaborate hoax device meant to look like a car bomb” to a police station in Derry. Last Friday a bomb detonated at the side of a police vehicle while the officers – who were uninjured – patrolled in Strabane, Co Tyrone. ![]() The New IRA has been linked to two recent attacks on police, representing the first such activity by the dissident republican group since April of last year.īack then it attempted to kill a police officer – and her young daughter – by placing a bomb by her car in Dungiven, Co Derry.
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