Belfast: Bomb Found Under Car Of Ex-Police Officer

A former police officer in Northern Ireland has found a bomb under his car as he left home to take his 12-year-old daughter to school.

The device was discovered when the man checked under the vehicle outside his house in east Belfast on Friday morning.

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Superintendent Nigel Grimshaw said: "I can confirm the police this morning, as a result of dealing with an ongoing security incident in the Tullycarnet area, have now recovered a viable explosive device.

"That device was discovered below a car belonging to a former police officer.

"I am very thankful to report to you that nobody has been hurt.

"But clearly yet again we are dealing with a situation where somebody could have been killed or maimed or very seriously injured as a result of a very, very reckless act in what is a residential area with lots of people going about their normal daily business on a Friday morning."

Army bomb disposal experts who made the device safe said it had all the hallmarks of being the work of dissident republicans.

The discovery came two weeks after letter bombs were sent to senior police officers, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers and the Public Prosecution Service.

The PSNI said the bomb was a reminder that the threat level in Northern Ireland remained severe.

Dissident republicans have killed two police officers, two soldiers and a prison officer in the last five years.

In 2011, constable Ronan Kerr was killed when a booby trap bomb detonated under his car outside his house in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

There have also been a number of other failed car bomb attempts on security force members.

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