Bomb defused outside Northern Ireland courthouse - another found

 
A 50kg car bomb has been defused outside a courthouse in the Northern Ireland border city of Derry.

The bomb was packed into a beer keg and left in a stolen car outside the building last night. It appears to have failed to detonate. Police (PSNI) spokespersons have described the device as "viable". A warning was phoned in at around 6.45pm last night saying that a bomb would explode outside the courthouse. The area was subsequently evacuated.

The PSNI have said that they expect that either the "Real IRA" or "Óglaigh na hÉireann" will claim responsibility. Both of these dissident republican groups broke from the mainstream IRA after it called an end to it's military operations in 2005 in order to concentrate on democratic politics. The elected member of the government for the area, Sinn Féin MLA spokesperson Martina Anderson, a former IRA prisoner who spent 12 years in prison for bomb attacks in prison condemned the attack.

In the last few minutes the PSNI has confirmed that a second device is under investigation in Belfast.