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A bomb left near a police officer s car outside her home in County Londonderry was an attempt to kill her and her young daughter, police have said.
The explosive was attached to a container of flammable liquid next to her car in Dungiven on Monday. This was designed to cause a fireball which would have engulfed the victim s car and anyone in it or close by, said Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan.
Police believe the dissident republican group the New IRA was responsible. What is really distressing here is the terrorists placed the bomb at the rear of the car directly at the point where the victim s three-year-old daughter sits, said ACC McEwan of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
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