Experts Defuse Car Bomb in N. Ireland
<i> Reuters</i>
BELFAST, Northern Ireland —
British army experts defused a huge car bomb Thursday left by Catholic guerrillas outside police headquarters in Londonderry, officials said.
A caller claiming to speak for the hard-line Irish Continuity Army Council alerted local news media to a car with a 600-pound bomb.
Hundreds of shoppers and students were evacuated as bomb experts detonated at least one device.
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