TERZA NOTTE DI DISORDINI NELLA CONTEA DI ARMAGH
Una donna costretta a guidare un camion nei pressi della stazione di polizia di Lurgan con la convinzione che contenesse un ordigno
Resta alta la tensione nell’area di Lurgan, dove si sono riaccesi gli animi per la terza notte consecutiva.
Stesso copione: uomini armati e mascherati per le strade e veicoli dirottati sui binari ferroviari e dati alle fiamme.
Due le auto dirottate nelle città di Lurgan e Craigavon dove sabato sera alle 21.40, 6 uomini mascherati e armati di pistola e coltello hanno costretto un uomo ad uscire dalla propria auto.
Solo 20 minuti più tardi, a Lurgan, due uomini, di cui uno armato di pistola, hanno fermato una donna alla guida di un camion. Uno dei due uomini ha riferito alla donna che sul camion era stato piazzato un ordigno, constringendola a dirigersi verso la stazione di polizia. La donna dopo un breve tragitto è uscita fuori dall’abitacolo ed ha chiamato la PSNI, che da un esame del veicolo non ha rinvenuto nulla di sospetto.
In risposta all’escalation di questi disordini, la PSNI lo scorso venerdì ha lanciato la Dissident Operation che vedrà le Sei Contee disseminate di pattuglie e di check points della polizia.
Continuano i disagi sulla linea ferroviaria che collega Belfast a Dublino e restano fermi i treni tra Lisburn e Portadown. Il Northern Irish Rail non è in grado di dire al momento, fino a quando persisteranno i disagi ai quali si sta cercando di ovviare attraverso l’organizzazione di collegamenti a mezzo bus.
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Trouble has flared on the streets of County Armagh for a third night.
In Lurgan, hijackers told a woman they placed a device on her lorry and forced her to drive to a police station. Upon examination, nothing was found.
Disturbances are thought to have been sparked last week when three local men were jailed over a dissident republican mortar bomb plot to kill police.
The latest unrest in Craigavon and Lurgan came as police boosted patrols to disrupt dissident republicans.
Police are concerned an attack may be planned for the arrival on Tuesday of new PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott.
As a direct response, on Friday evening police launched Operation Dissent which will see more police patrols and checkpoints in parts of Northern Ireland.
In the latest sporadic trouble, two cars were hijacked in the neighbouring towns of Craigavon and Lurgan.
In Craigavon, up to six masked men forced a man out of his car at the Drumbeg roundabout at about 2140 BST on Saturday.
One was carrying a gun while another had a knife.
Lorry device
Twenty minutes later in Lurgan, two men, one armed with a handgun, stopped a woman driving a lorry.
One of the men told her there was a device strapped to her vehicle and told her to drive to Lurgan Police Station.
She drove a short distance before getting out and called police, who examined the lorry but found nothing.
The lorry was hijacked at a railway crossing at Lake Street.
It is the same area where hijacked vehicles were abandoned on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line on Thursday and Friday, disrupting train services.
Last week, a 600lb bomb was defused at Forkhill in south Armagh, a device which police said had been designed to kill its officers.
After the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in March, the threat posed by dissident republicans is said to be higher now than at any time in the past five years.
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