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Third night of trouble in Armagh | Third night of trouble in Armagh |
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Trouble has flared on the streets of County Armagh for a third night. | Trouble has flared on the streets of County Armagh for a third night. |
Disturbances are thought to have been sparked last week when three local men were jailed over a dissident republican mortar bomb plot to kill police. | Disturbances are thought to have been sparked last week when three local men were jailed over a dissident republican mortar bomb plot to kill police. |
The latest unrest in Lurgan and Craigavon comes as police stepped up patrols to try to head off any threat from dissident republicans. | |
Police are concerned an attack may be planned for the arrival on Tuesday of new PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott. | |
As a direct response, on Friday evening police launched Operation Dissent which will see more police patrols and checkpoints in parts of Northern Ireland. | |
In the latest trouble, two cars were hijacked in the neighbouring towns of Craigavon and Lurgan. | |
In Craigavon, up to six masked men forced a man out of his car at the Drumbeg roundabout at about 2140 BST on Saturday. | |
One was carrying a gun while another had a knife. | |
Lorry device | |
Twenty minutes later in Lurgan, two men, one armed with a handgun, stopped a woman driving a lorry. | |
One of the men told her there was a device strapped to her vehicle and told her to drive to Lurgan Police Station. | |
She drove a short distance before getting out and called police, who examined the lorry but found nothing. | |
The lorry was hijacked at a railway crossing at Lake Street. | |
It is the same area where hijacked vehicles were abandoned on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line on Thursday and Friday, disrupting train services. | |
Last week, a 600lb bomb was defused at Forkhill in south Armagh, a device which police said had been designed to kill its officers. | Last week, a 600lb bomb was defused at Forkhill in south Armagh, a device which police said had been designed to kill its officers. |
After the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in March, the threat posed by dissident republicans is said to be higher now than at any time in the past five years. | |