Police Link Northern Ireland Car Bomb to New IRA and Say Was ‘Attempt to Kill People’

A forensic officer at the scene of a suspected car bomb in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 20, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Detectives in Northern Ireland believe an extremist group called the New IRA is responsible for a car bomb that exploded outside a courthouse in Londonderry, and are calling the attack an “attempt to kill.”

Two men in their 20s have been arrested in connection with the incident, said officials with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).