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20/05/2003
Loyalist paramilitary group claim bomb attack
Loyalist paramilitary group, the Red Hand Defenders have admitted planting a bomb outside the offices of Republican Sinn Fein in west Belfast yesterday.
The device was found by a member of staff as they opened the premises on the Falls Road yesterday morning.
Army bomb experts eventually carried out a controlled explosion on the device which contained an explosive substance attached to an alarm clock.
The Red Hand Defenders has been used as a cover name by both the UDA and the LVF in the past.
Republican Sinn Fein are the political wing of dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA.
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The device was found by a member of staff as they opened the premises on the Falls Road yesterday morning.
Army bomb experts eventually carried out a controlled explosion on the device which contained an explosive substance attached to an alarm clock.
The Red Hand Defenders has been used as a cover name by both the UDA and the LVF in the past.
Republican Sinn Fein are the political wing of dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA.
(MB)
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