Incident comes as Boris Johnson pledges to cut Brexit border checks that have inflamed tensions in region
A bomb has been found beside the car of a female police officer in County Derry near where her toddler daughter usually sits in what the Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, has described as an “attempted murder”.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) confirmed a viable explosive device had been found on Monday evening outside the officer’s home in a rural part of the county. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but police believe the New IRA dissident group is behind the attack, its first in over a year.
