Bombs target police in Northern Ireland

Detectives investigating the attempted murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland have made three arrests.

Three men, aged 25, 34 and 41, have been detained in 
Belfast after the constable discovered a bomb under his car at his home in the city on Sunday.

Police said the attack could have killed the constable’s wife and two young children. Police Service of Northern Ireland’s assistant chief constable, George Hamilton said: “If that officer had not checked under his car we would have been looking at a murder or multiple murders.”

Officers were also put on high alert when a pipe bomb was found close to the gates of a police station in Tandragee in mid-Ulster, near the homes of elderly residents.