{"id":471236,"date":"2026-05-06T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:42:15","slug":"teenager-among-three-arrested-over-lurgan-car-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471236\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager among three arrested over Lurgan car bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people, including a teenage boy, have been arrested in connection with the investigation into an attack on a police station in Northern Ireland in March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/ulster\/2026\/0331\/1566025-lurgan-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A &#8220;crude but viable&#8221; bomb was driven into Lurgan police station in Co Armagh on Monday 30 March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which was the size of a briefcase, had been placed in the boot of a fast-food delivery driver&#8217;s car and he was told to drive it to the station.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that a 48-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy were arrested this morning under terrorism legislation and have been taken to Musgrave Serious Crime Suite.<\/p>\n<p>A 39-year-old woman was also arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, obstructing police and assisting an offender.<\/p>\n<p>All three were arrested in the Lurgan area, where searches are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people, including a teenage boy, have been arrested in connection with the investigation into an attack on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-471236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116527690363922443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}