Two hijacked vans seized in Northern Ireland, days after car bomb
A fifth man was arrested after Saturday’s blast, which is believed to be the work of the New IRA — a merger of militant groups opposed to the 1998 peace deal
Londonderry, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland police cordoned off two areas in Londonderry on Monday to examine two separate hijacked vehicles for potential security threats, two days after a car bomb exploded in the city. There was a large bang and black smoke from the first van after an army bomb disposal robot entered. Police said the van had been hijacked by three masked men who threw an object in the back before abandoning it on a residential street. Another delivery van was hijacked nearby later on Monday by four masked men, one of them reported to have a gun, police said. Officers were evacuating a number of homes, and photographs tweeted by local reporters showed a Royal Mail van in the middle of an empty road. Threat from militant groups No-one was injured in the blast outside the court on Saturday but the incident highlighted the threat still posed by militant groups opposed to a 1998 peace deal that largely ended three decades of violence in the British-run province. “...
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