The death of a man found in a park in Co Armagh is no longer being treated as suspicious following a post mortem examination.

A pipe bomb defused in the North had the potential to kill and maim, a police chief has warned.

Terrorists who prepared to launch two mortar explosives in south Armagh had planned to kill police officers, a senior commander said today.

Police have praised army bomb experts who prevented a device exploding inside a Co Down bank.