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| Policeman killed in Omagh car bomb attack; The booby-trap bomb exploded in a residential area | |
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| UK_Muslim | Apr 2 2011, 07:38 PM Post #1 |
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Policeman killed in Omagh car bomb attack [click red text for link] A 25-year-old police officer has been killed after a bomb exploded under his car in Omagh, County Tyrone. The device exploded under the vehicle outside his home in Highfield Close, just before 1600 BST on Saturday. ![]() Neighbours rushed to help him and some used fire extinguishers to put out the flames from the explosion. He died at the scene. He was recently qualified and is the second policeman to be killed since the PSNI was formed out of the RUC in 2001. Since 2007, dissident republicans have planted dozens of booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers. The bombs have failed to detonate, but two policemen lost their legs in attacks in May 2008 and January 2010. On Saturday morning about 2,000 people, who were taking part in the Omagh Half Marathon, passed the nearby entrance to the estate just hours before the blast. Politicians and party leaders from across Northern Ireland and the Republic have condemned the attack. As of yet there has been no claim of responsibility for his murder. Dissidents Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Shaun Woodward, described it as "an evil and cowardly attack". "These crimes are targeted on those who protect the community," he said. "We all deeply mourn the brave young man whose life was taken by this savage crime. "We all have a duty to stop those behind it from succeeding." Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said his party was determined that those responsible would not set back the progress of the peace and political process. The Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny said it was a "heinous and pointless act of terror". "Those who carried it out want to drag us back to the misery and pain of the past. They are acting in defiance of the Irish people," he said. They must know that they can never succeed in defeating the democratic will of the people." Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott said those behind the murder had one aim - to take Northern Ireland back to the dark days of the past. "The deliberate targeting of a new recruit to the police by these criminals is utterly reprehensible," he said. Prayers SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie said the policeman's killers were enemies of Ireland. "This has not only stunned the people of Omagh, it has stunned the entire country," she said. "This is not what the people want. They cannot be allowed to continue their campaign." Omagh DUP Councillor, Errol Thompson, said he believed dissident republicans were responsible for the attack. "I think these people are trying to knock the peace process back, especially in terms of the forthcoming elections," he said. "It doesn't take a lot of support for them to carry out these kinds of attacks, but they will not pull this country back, we are moving forward." Prayers are being said at vigil masses throughout Omagh on Saturday night for the policeman. In March 2009, a police officer was shot dead as he answered a distress call in Craigavon, County Armagh. Dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA, claimed responsibility for the attack. Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, was married and from Banbridge. He was murdered two days after the Real IRA shot dead two soldiers outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim. The Continuity IRA is one of a number of dissident republican paramilitary groups opposed to the peace process. They have carried out bomb and gun attacks on civilians and the security forces. There is believed to be cross-over and co-operation between the Continuity IRA and the larger Real IRA, which bombed Omagh in 1998. The car bomb killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, and injured hundreds more. |
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