COOKSTOWN, Northern Ireland, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A civilian police employee in Northern Ireland survived without injury Tuesday when a booby-trap bomb went off on his car as he drove to work.
The device was the third in a week aimed at security forces in Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph reported. All three bombs are believed to have been planted by dissident republicans.
A residential area in Cookstown was evacuated for several hours. Investigators said the bomb only partially detonated.
John McNamee, chairman of the Cookstown District Council and a member of the republican party, Sinn Fein, called the bombing "another futile attack by marginalized individuals who have little support in the nationalist community". UPI
