Police foil 'republican bomb attack'

Police shot and critically wounded a man as a suspected dissident republican bomb attack was foiled in Belfast city centre.

Police shot and critically wounded a man as a suspected dissident republican bomb attack was foiled in Belfast city centre.

He was hit twice by officers who sprung a major security trap when a car was abandoned outside the city's motor tax offices.

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