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Two arrested in Northern Ireland car bomb attack
Nov 22, 2009, 15:33 GMT
London - Police in Northern Ireland on Sunday arrested two men suspected of attacking a police headquarters in Belfast on Saturday night with a car bomb.
The attackers broke through a blockade and fired shots, but missed their targets. The 400-pound car bomb (181 kilograms) also failed to detonate. There were no injuries.
Police blamed Republican extremists for the attack. The two men were arrested after a gunfight near the border with Ireland following the bomb attack.
More than 3,500 people died in the Northern Ireland conflict between pro-Britain Protestants and Republican Catholics from the 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998.
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