Militant group the New Irish Republican Army (New IRA) has threatened to bomb the homes of police officers after confirming that planted a bomb that exploded in front of a police station in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday. Referring to the group’s statement, the local daily Irish News reported on this on Tuesday, reports TASR.
- The New IRA has claimed responsibility for the weekend bombing of a police station in Belfast.
- The group threatened to bomb the homes of police officers in Northern Ireland.
- No one was injured in the weekend explosion near the police station.
- The New IRA has been attacking police officers for a long time and rejecting a peace deal.
- The Good Friday Agreement guarantees Northern Ireland in Britain until a majority decides otherwise.
No one was injured in the weekend explosion. The perpetrators hijacked a delivery vehicle and forced the driver to take them to the police station. It was the latest in a series of sporadic attacks on police in the region that have continued almost 30 years after the Northern Ireland peace dealReuters reported.
The New IRA is one of several active militant groups opposed to the 1998 peace deal. She was behind numerous attacks on police officers, including a similar car bomb outside a police station near Belfast in March this year.
Targeting police officers in their homes would escalate attacks, Reuters noted, noting that the last police officer killed in Northern Ireland, Ronan Kerr, died in a car bomb explosion outside his home 15 years ago.
The Good Friday Peace Agreement led to the disarmament of Irish republican and pro-British loyalist militant groups. But breakaway republican groups are rejecting political compromises on a deal to keep Northern Ireland part of the UKunless the majority of the region’s population approves unification with Ireland in a referendum.
