Northern Ireland police defuse huge bomb
Terrorism • April 2011 • Views: 637
Authorities in Northern Ireland on Saturday defused a bomb packed into a bin containing 500 pounds of homemade explosives, police said.
The bin was located in a van abandoned outside Newry, along the main roadway between Dublin and Belfast, said District Commander Alastair Robinson of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
He blamed the foiled attack on dissident republicans who are accused of targeting a police officer with a deadly booby-trap bomb in Omagh on April 2.