A civilian Ministry of Defence employee has been seriously injured in an explosion at a training ground near Magilligan prison in Co Derry.

There have been reports of an explosion in an army base in Co Derry.

The Provisional IRA was accused of involvement in a bombing outside an army base in Derry early today.

The RUC in Derry said they have pinpointed the source of last night's explosion at a British Army base in the city.

The RUC is investigating an overnight explosion at a British Army base in the centre of Derry.

The RUC is investigating an explosion in Derry overnight.

Portuguese Navy divers were today preparing to brave a river’s treacherous current and feel their way around metal objects detected by sonar that are believed to be sunken vehicles holding at least 60 bodies from a bridge collapse.

A sonar device was brought in today to assist almost 300 emergency workers searching for more than 60 bodies lost in a raging Portuguese river after a bridge collapsed.

Divers in Portugal have recovered the first of around 70 bodies trapped in vehicles after a bridge collapsed.

Sixty-seven people are feared dead after a bus plunged into a river when a bridge collapsed in northern Portugal.