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| Bomb found under police officer's car in Belfast | Bomb found under police officer's car in Belfast |
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| A bomb has been found underneath a police officer's car in east Belfast, not far from the Northern Ireland parliamentary buildings on the Upper Newtonards Road. | A bomb has been found underneath a police officer's car in east Belfast, not far from the Northern Ireland parliamentary buildings on the Upper Newtonards Road. |
| Parishioners from the nearby Stormont Presbyterian church had to be evacuated during a security operation to defuse the bomb. | Parishioners from the nearby Stormont Presbyterian church had to be evacuated during a security operation to defuse the bomb. |
| Police officers regularly check underneath their cars as they are continued targets of republican dissident terror groups. The anti-ceasefire republicans murdered police constable Ronan Kerr in April 2011 using a similar booby-trap bomb device. | Police officers regularly check underneath their cars as they are continued targets of republican dissident terror groups. The anti-ceasefire republicans murdered police constable Ronan Kerr in April 2011 using a similar booby-trap bomb device. |
| Local Democratic Unionist councillor Robin Newton described the latest attempted attack as planned murder. | Local Democratic Unionist councillor Robin Newton described the latest attempted attack as planned murder. |
| The targeting of a police officer in a mainly unionist area of Belfast suggests again that republican dissidents have access to intelligence on the personal details of police officers. | The targeting of a police officer in a mainly unionist area of Belfast suggests again that republican dissidents have access to intelligence on the personal details of police officers. |
| SDLP policing board member Conall McDevitt said: "This is a cynical and deplorable act. Those seeking to target police officers are undermining not only the stated will of the people of Ireland, who have long since rejected violence, but also the desire for a new beginning for policing in the north, which is shared by the majority of citizens." | SDLP policing board member Conall McDevitt said: "This is a cynical and deplorable act. Those seeking to target police officers are undermining not only the stated will of the people of Ireland, who have long since rejected violence, but also the desire for a new beginning for policing in the north, which is shared by the majority of citizens." |
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