Police escape another bomb in N Ireland

The Saturday explosion in the Northern Irish town of Lurgan has been described as “an attempt to kill police officers” raising fears that the police could be heading for a bloody incident in the coming months.

According to Press TV, the blast happened at 15 GMT yesterday and the police were earlier lured into visiting the explosion area by information that an un-notified parade would take place there.
The bomb was planted in a bin and Sinn Fein Member of Local Assembly John O’Dowd said the device was targeted at the police.
Northern Ireland has been recently hit by at least two other bombing attempts, the police believed were targeted at them.
Two weeks ago officers found a device near a police station in south of the capital Belfast, but officers were lucky that no one was injured because the device “failed to go off”.
It followed a high-profile bombing near a police station in the city of Derry earlier this month.
Derry police said at the time that they had intercepted four ready-to-fire mortar bombs, believed to be “primed and ready to go” for a police station, in a van.
Police said the van’s roof was removed so that the mortars could be fired from the vehicle, warning “they would have caused mass fatalities” if they were launched.
The incident was described as unseen in scale in the history of Irish troubles.