Northern Ireland: Bomb was ‘bound for G8 hotel’

A HOTEL in Northern Ireland where G8 leaders are due to meet in June was the intended target for a bomb intercepted by police last weekend, a paramilitary nationalist group has claimed.

• Bomb intercepted by police was bound for hotel where G8 leaders are due to meet in June

• Device found in Enniskillen contained 60 kg of homemade explosive

Army bomb disposal experts defused the device, containing 60 kilograms of homemade explosive in the county Fermanagh town of Enniskillen, close to where world leaders will hold their annual summit in three months’ time.

Dissident nationalist group Oglaigh na hEireann, loosely translated as Soldiers of Ireland, said in a coded message to television station UTV that the bomb was bound for the five-star Lough Erne hotel, the broadcaster said.

A senior Northern Irish officer said on Saturday that police believed the bomb was on its way to a police station in a town nearby.