PSNI blames New IRA after mortar bomb found in Strabane

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Images released by the police appear to show three tubes taped together with wires coming out of them and resting on the front wall of a house, near the front door of the property. According to the police, the bomb was placed in a car which was hijacked from a pizza delivery driver in the Mount Sion area of Strabane at about 9.40pm on Friday.

Of the number of dissident republican groups in existence, the New IRA is viewed by police as posing the most significant threat in the north west of Northern Ireland. Supt McCalmont said that the police were “concerned as an organisation” about the increased number of attacks by dissident republicans.

“Our assessment is this group is concealing bomb-making materials in this area,” Supt McCalmont said.

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