600lb bomb planted ‘to kill police officers’

A MASSIVE 600-lb bomb planted close to the border with the North was intended to murder police officers, a security chief said last night.

The device, containing 600lb of fertiliser-based home-made explosives, was defused by army bomb disposal experts outside Forkhill in south Armagh.

Dissident republicans were being blamed for setting the bomb, which had a command wire that led across the border to a firing point.