Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential dissident republican plot to blow up a lorry due to cross the Irish Sea on Brexit day
Police say that they received a report that an explosive device was on a lorry at Belfast docks last Friday.Police carried out a search, but nothing was found, and the ferry sailed as planned and arrived safely in Scotland.
On Monday, officers received a further report that a device was attached to a lorry belonging to a named haulage company. After a two-day search, which involved the search of 400 vehicles, a bomb was found attached to a heavy goods vehicle in the Silverwood industrial estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh.Detective Superintendent Sean Wright of the PSNI's Terrorism Investigation Unit said: "It is clear from the information available to police that dissident republicans deliberately and recklessly attached an explosive device to a heavy goods vehicle in the full knowledge and expectation that it would put the driver of that vehicle, road users and the wider public at serious risk of injury and possible death. "Had this vehicle travelled and the device had exploded at any point along the M1, across the Westlink or into the Harbour estate the risks posed do not bear thinking about. "The only conclusion that we can draw is that once again Dissident Republicans have shown a total disregard for the community, for businesses and for wider society." Detective Wright issued an appeal for information, and asked that anyone who may have noticed any unusual activity in the Silverwood Industrial Estate area between 4pm and 10pm on 31 January, to contact police.
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