Massive bomb ‘could have caused another Omagh’

Police tonight warned of a dangerous new threat from dissident republican terrorists in Northern Ireland after intercepting a bomb which could have caused carnage on the scale of the Omagh atrocity.

Police tonight warned of a dangerous new threat from dissident republican terrorists in Northern Ireland after intercepting a bomb which could have caused carnage on the scale of the Omagh atrocity.

A primed device weighing at least 200lbs was seized when security forces swooped on a car outside Armagh city.

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