Bomb found under car in Wicklow

A home-made bomb which was discovered under a car at a block of flats in Kilcoole, in Co Wicklow, may have been attached to the…

A home-made bomb which was discovered under a car at a block of flats in Kilcoole, in Co Wicklow, may have been attached to the car when it was driven for some miles, according to gardaí.

Army bomb disposal experts were called out to remove what they said was a viable explosive device, from the car at the rear of a block of flats at Willowbrook, Kilcoole, in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The Garda Press Office, which initially described the bomb as having been discovered at Church Road, in Greystones, later said it appeared the car may have been driven with the bomb attached, from there to Kilcoole, a distance of about three miles.

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