N. Ireland police defuse huge bomb on Dublin road
Police in Northern Ireland defused a 500-pound van bomb near the main Dublin-Belfast road on Saturday, a device which they say may have been built by dissident Republicans to cause "huge devastation" in a nearby town.
The bomb, roughly the same size as one that dissident Republicans used to kill 29 people in Omagh 1998, was discovered underneath a motorway bridge south of Newry after two warning calls on Friday. The incident comes a week after suspected dissidents carried out their first killing of a policeman in two years. (Reuters)
