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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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Petrol bombs are thrown while the police hit back with water cannons and rubber bullets, bringing back memories of The Troubles (Getty)
“When your own prime minister shafts you, when he comes to this city and says there will be no border between us and Britain, and then breaks his word so easily, when your voice is being ignored, you feel abandoned,” said the loyalist community leader, a former paramilitary group member who had fought in the long years of Northern Ireland’s bitter conflict.
“The young people feel that violence has paid off for the republicans, so why shouldn’t it pay off for them? What is happening in the streets is not surprising. We have been warning this would happen – the fear is that there’s much worse in the coming months.”
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