Car bomb fails to detonate

DUBLIN – NORTHERN Ireland’s police commander says Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 180-kilogramme car bomb outside the police-reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate.

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Chief Constable Matt Baggott said Sunday that the abortive attack on the Northern Ireland Policing Board represented an attack on the province’s entire peace process.

The explosives-laden car caught on fire but didn’t explode and caused no damage to the building, where a joint Catholic-Protestant panel oversees police operations.

Also on Sunday, detectives arrested three suspected IRA dissidents on suspicion of involvement in a gun attack on a police patrol in the Northern Ireland border village of Garrison. Chief Baggott said police returned fire, but nobody was hit. — AP

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