Friday, April 8, 2011

Two arrested in connection with the murder of Northern Ireland police

Northern Irish police (PSNI) on Thursday arrested a second man for alleged link with the murder of a Catholic agent Ronan Kerr in an attack Saturday by IRA dissidents inactive. The suspect, 40, is in a police station in Antrim, north of Belfast, with another person, aged 26, arrested yesterday in Scotland as a result of investigations by the PSNI on the killing of police, 25.

The alleged terrorist was arrested on Thursday while riding in a vehicle between the towns of Omagh and Northern Ireland Ballygawley, in County Tyronne, a spokesman for the PSNI. The two people are being questioned for his alleged involvement in the bombing and the discovery on Tuesday of a cache of weapons in Northern Ireland town of Coalisland in County Tyronne, not far from Omagh, where a sticky bomb placed in the Car Kerr ended his life.

Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, it looks like it is the work of one of the splinter groups and inactive IRA opposed the peace process in the British province. In the raid on Tuesday, the PSNI found AK-47 automatic rifles, a grenade launcher components, detonators, petrol bombs and explosive Semtex, one of the weapons caches "more important in recent years," according to the "number two "of the PSNI, Drew Harris.

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