Five held after Policing Board death threats

FIVE people were being questioned yesterday by detectives investigating death threats against Catholic Policing Board members in Northern Ireland as the IRA faced demands to admit they are not involved.

Four men and a woman were detained in Strabane, Co Tyrone, where a car belonging to one local police board member was set alight earlier this week. The arrests were made as SDLP leader Mark Durkan called on the Provisional IRA to make a statement confirming Sinn Féin claims that they were not connected with the threats.

Two members of police boards have already quit, fearing for their lives.