The device was attached to a lorry in Co Armagh and set to detonate as Britain left the EUA dissident republican terrorist plot to detonate a bomb on an Irish Sea ferry on the night Britain left the EU was uncovered by a large security operation, police have said. The “viable device” was attached to a freight lorry and timed to explode at about 11pm last Friday, the time of Britain’s exit from the European Union. Police believe that the device was planted by the Continuity IRA and that the bombers wanted it to go off when the lorry was on a ferry crossing from Northern Ireland to Scotland. George Clarke, Northern Ireland’s assistant chief constable, said that those who planted the device intended that it would “explode at about the time the UK left the EU”. “It could have caused death and

Source: The Times February 06, 2020 23:15 UTC