Belfast. .- Northern Irish police have turned off this Saturday, a bomb ready to explode "found in a van on the main route connecting Dublin with Belfast, a week after the attack allegedly perpetrated by dissident Republicans who killed a police in Omagh . Although no group has taken responsibility, police suspect may again be behind the attempted bombing of the IRA dissidents who opposed the 1998 peace process.
Nothing more to discover the car on Friday, after receiving two anonymous phone calls warning, the bomb squad carried out an operation that went off for 18 hours and in which they performed several controlled explosions. After the deactivation, a police spokeswoman said the bomb, which was "ready to explode," had been secured.
Second 'car bomb' in a week Police have reported that the bomb found on Thursday in an abandoned van in County Down Irish town contained more than 200 kilos of explosives and was one of the most powerful artifacts seen in years . The bomb was defused by the bomb squad after a long and complex operation.
Have broken out "certainly would have caused enormous loss of lives and widespread destruction," a police spokesman at the British broadcaster CNN. The size of the bomb, by comparison, makes the engine smaller than 135 kilos of explosives blew up last year to the courthouse in the town of Newry, and caused enormous material damage. 
Nothing more to discover the car on Friday, after receiving two anonymous phone calls warning, the bomb squad carried out an operation that went off for 18 hours and in which they performed several controlled explosions. After the deactivation, a police spokeswoman said the bomb, which was "ready to explode," had been secured.
Second 'car bomb' in a week Police have reported that the bomb found on Thursday in an abandoned van in County Down Irish town contained more than 200 kilos of explosives and was one of the most powerful artifacts seen in years . The bomb was defused by the bomb squad after a long and complex operation.
Have broken out "certainly would have caused enormous loss of lives and widespread destruction," a police spokesman at the British broadcaster CNN. The size of the bomb, by comparison, makes the engine smaller than 135 kilos of explosives blew up last year to the courthouse in the town of Newry, and caused enormous material damage.
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