Police arrest five men in Ronan Kerr investigation

FIVE men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murder of Catholic policeman Ronan Kerr who was blown up by dissident republicans in the North earlier this year.

They were detained in a major security operation involving up to 200 officers.

Mr Kerr, 25, a Catholic member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, was killed when a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car outside his home in Omagh, Co Tyrone, on April 2.