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19/04/2002
Continuity IRA claim responsibility for Garnerville bomb attack
Dissident republican group the Continuity IRA has admitted to the bomb attack on a police training college in Belfast earlier this week.
In a coded statement, the group claimed the new police service was still the RUC under a different guise.
The CIRA said it would continue to target the police service as it still regarded it as the enemy and it warned nationalists to take no part in the new force.
The device was found outside Garnerville at 11pm on Tuesday April 16. Army bomb disposal experts were called in and about 100 people within the college were moved out, along with the residents from several homes in the surrounding area.
The device exploded just after midnight while it was being examined. There were no reports of any injuries but the rear gates of the college, where the device exploded, were damaged by the blast.
Belfast’s area police commander, Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said: “This is not an attack on the police service but an attack on all the people in Northern Ireland who want to move forwards.” (AMcE)
In a coded statement, the group claimed the new police service was still the RUC under a different guise.
The CIRA said it would continue to target the police service as it still regarded it as the enemy and it warned nationalists to take no part in the new force.
The device was found outside Garnerville at 11pm on Tuesday April 16. Army bomb disposal experts were called in and about 100 people within the college were moved out, along with the residents from several homes in the surrounding area.
The device exploded just after midnight while it was being examined. There were no reports of any injuries but the rear gates of the college, where the device exploded, were damaged by the blast.
Belfast’s area police commander, Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said: “This is not an attack on the police service but an attack on all the people in Northern Ireland who want to move forwards.” (AMcE)
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