Catholic policeman murdered in bomb blast in Northern Ireland
The scene in the Highfield Close area of Omagh after a newly recruited PSNI officer is understood to have been critically injured in an under-car bomb attack. April 2011
Belfast Telegraph
Saturday, 2 April 2011A young police officer has been killed by a booby-trap car bomb in Northern Ireland.
The device exploded under the vehicle outside his home in Highfield Close, off the Gortin Road in Omagh, Co Tyrone, just before 4pm today.
It is understood the 25-year-old was a new recruit to the Police Service of Northern Ireland and was a Catholic.
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward said: “This evil and cowardly attack will sicken everyone across Northern Ireland.
“These crimes are targeted on those who protect the community.
“We all deeply mourn the brave young man whose life was taken by this savage crime.
“We all have a duty to stop those behind it from succeeding.”
Politicians north and south of the border condemned the bomb attack on the residential housing estate.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said his party was determined that those responsible would not set back the progress of the peace and political process.
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore, the Republic of Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister and deputy leader, warned that those behind such violence have no mandate and are acting contrary to the democratic will of the people of Ireland, north and south. Read more…
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