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19/03/2014
'IRA' Responsible For Mortar Attack
A group of dissident republicans calling itself the 'IRA' has claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on a police vehicle in west Belfast last Friday night.
The BBC said sources confirmed the group had claimed responsibility for the attack on the PSNI Landrover as it passed the City Cemetery on the Falls Road. The device was detonated by a command wire, but caused minimal damage.
Dissident republican sources also told the BBC the device contained a quantity of new Semtex explosives the group has recently acquired.
No-one was injured in the attack, but a Filipino family's car was hit by debris.
The group is the same that said it murdered prison officer David Black as he drove to Maghaberry Prison along the M1 one morning in November 2012.
The group's latest claim, if true, means dissidents have acquired new explosives. All previous weapons and explosives used by dissidents were from old supplies owned by the Provisional IRA.
(IT/MH)
The BBC said sources confirmed the group had claimed responsibility for the attack on the PSNI Landrover as it passed the City Cemetery on the Falls Road. The device was detonated by a command wire, but caused minimal damage.
Dissident republican sources also told the BBC the device contained a quantity of new Semtex explosives the group has recently acquired.
No-one was injured in the attack, but a Filipino family's car was hit by debris.
The group is the same that said it murdered prison officer David Black as he drove to Maghaberry Prison along the M1 one morning in November 2012.
The group's latest claim, if true, means dissidents have acquired new explosives. All previous weapons and explosives used by dissidents were from old supplies owned by the Provisional IRA.
(IT/MH)
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