Masked men steal vans in Northern Ireland

Two days after a car bomb attack in the Northern Irish Derry, the police has released on Monday a security alarm. The warning applies to section of a Road "in Derry/Londonderry according to a report that three masked men in a van abducted, and an object in the rear area of the vehicle threw, before you decide on this," wrote the police on Monday in the short message service Twitter. Later, a second security warning followed because of a report on another entwendetes vehicle.

The second report says that four masked men were in the car at delivery. One of the men was armed, it was said.

The journalist Leona O'neill from the "Belfast Telegraph" reported early in the afternoon, in the short message service Twitter, the police had blown up the first stolen car in a controlled manner. You released a Video, which showed a defusing robot, of a Street near the abandoned vehicle along rolled.

"We expect significant disruptions to the local community while we are working to secure the area", police said.

Additional arrest after bomb attack

Meanwhile, a fifth suspect was arrested after the car bomb attack on Saturday in Derry. According to police sources, a 50-Year-old. He had been arrested under terrorism suspicion. On Sunday, four men between the ages of 21 and 42 years, had already been arrested. They were interrogated on Monday.

On Saturday night occurred in front of a court building in the centre of the second largest city in Northern Ireland an Explosion. No one was hurt. With the stop, there is growing concern that the turmoil around the planned EU exit of great Britain militant groups could play in Northern Ireland in the hands.

In the North of Ireland had fought each other for decades, Irish Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists. 3500 people died in the conflict. In the case of a hard Brexits the re-introduction of border controls between the British province of Northern Ireland and the EU Ireland is imminent. (sep/AFP)

Created: 21.01.2019, 18:30 clock