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N. Ireland village evacuated over bomb found in van

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British Army experts defused a 300-pound (135-kilogram) bomb left by Irish Republican Army dissidents in a van outside the police station in a Northern Ireland border village on Friday, police said.

 

IRA dissidents opposed to Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord and the Catholic-Protestant government it spawned have planted a string of car bombs in the British territory since January. Most have failed to detonate, and none has caused any serious injuries. (AP)

 

 

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