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20/05/2003
Loyalist paramilitary group claim bomb attack
Loyalist paramilitary group, the Red Hand Defenders have admitted planting a bomb outside the offices of Republican Sinn Fein in west Belfast yesterday.
The device was found by a member of staff as they opened the premises on the Falls Road yesterday morning.
Army bomb experts eventually carried out a controlled explosion on the device which contained an explosive substance attached to an alarm clock.
The Red Hand Defenders has been used as a cover name by both the UDA and the LVF in the past.
Republican Sinn Fein are the political wing of dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA.
(MB)
The device was found by a member of staff as they opened the premises on the Falls Road yesterday morning.
Army bomb experts eventually carried out a controlled explosion on the device which contained an explosive substance attached to an alarm clock.
The Red Hand Defenders has been used as a cover name by both the UDA and the LVF in the past.
Republican Sinn Fein are the political wing of dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA.
(MB)
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