Two arrested after dissident blast

Police imposed cordons after the blast

Two men are being questioned by police in connection with an explosion in County Fermanagh.

Six police officers were injured when a device exploded in Enniskillen on Monday.

The two men were detained on Wednesday night.

Police have released a third person without charge.

Explosive

The device was left in a flower bed in Water Street, causing superficial damage to the town hall.

The Continuity IRA said it carried out the attack. The dissident republican group was formed after the IRA ceasefire in 1994 and is opposed to the peace process.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the group said it also carried out an attack on Stewartstown Police Station in County Tyrone at the weekend.

Chief Superintendent Gerry O'Callaghan said the bomb in Enniskillen, which was made of 10 to 15lbs of explosive, could easily have killed.

The injured police officers were evacuating the area when the bomb exploded.

Enniskillen was the scene of one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles when eleven people died and 63 were injured in an IRA bomb on Remembrance Sunday in 1987.