A loud bang was heard in Craigavon, County Armagh in Northern Ireland on Friday night in the Tullygally Road area. Some twenty people were evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night following the explosion.
Friday's explosion in Northern Ireland's Craigavon was a failed attack by renegade Republicans against police officers, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
PSNI Chief Inspector Barney O'Connor told the BBC that dissidents had triggered a viable explosive device in a bid to murder police officers that had responded to a call from the public. Police said that a Belfast-based newspaper contacted them shortly after the bang saying that they received a call about a failed bomb attack against a police patrol.
The law enforcement officers strongly condemned the act, branding it as a “cowardly and despicable act of terrorism”.
On Friday, police received a report of a loud bang in the Tullygally Road area at around midnight. The bomb disposal experts later confirmed that the suspicious object found in the area was an explosive device.
Republican dissidents are Irish republicans who reject the existing peace agreement between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. Many of these groups have historically supported violence against British law enforcement forces. The agreement in question is the so-called Good Friday Agreement that was signed in 1998 following negotiations…
