The device exploded close to Wattle Bridge at around 10.35am after bomb disposal experts had defused a larger device in the area.

Though nobody has claimed the weekend bomb attack on the North’s police, it has all the hallmarks of republicans, says Dieter Reinisch.

An explosive device has detonated in Co Fermanagh as police and British Army bomb disposal officers were searching the area.

Police in the North have found a suspicious object in Newtownbulter, Co Fermanagh.