Status: 11/18/2022 5:36 p.m
In western Northern Ireland, unknown persons have carried out a bomb attack on a police patrol. The officers survived unharmed. There were a particularly large number of attacks in the place during the Northern Ireland conflict.
Two police officers survived a bomb attack in Northern Ireland. Your vehicle has been damaged. According to the police, the incident happened late Thursday evening in the town of Strabane, right on the border with the Republic of Ireland. It was a targeted attack.
Police say they are investigating attempted murder. She had cordoned off the area around the site of the attack. About 1000 residents were affected, many children could not go to school. As the newspaper “Belfast Telegraph” reported, the police suspect the New IRA, one of the successor and splinter groups of the former IRA, to be behind the attack.
Politicians from all religious camps condemned the act. The vice-president of the Catholic-Republican party Sinn Féin and designated first head of government of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, described the attack as “reprehensible”. The perpetrators will not succeed in throwing society back, she said.
Hotspot of the Northern Ireland conflict
Strabane was a hotspot of contention during decades of fighting between Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists. In the place with around 13,000 and almost exclusively Catholic residents, there were a particularly large number of attacks on British soldiers and police officers. There was a British military base nearby. It was not until 1998 that a peace agreement ended the conflict.