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| Londonderry alert: Four still questioned over Eglinton bomb | Londonderry alert: Four still questioned over Eglinton bomb |
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| Four men are still being questioned by police after a bomb was found under a PSNI officer's car outside his house in Eglinton, near Londonderry. | Four men are still being questioned by police after a bomb was found under a PSNI officer's car outside his house in Eglinton, near Londonderry. |
| Three men were arrested by police in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland on Thursday morning. | Three men were arrested by police in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland on Thursday morning. |
| A fourth man, 27, was detained by the PSNI in Eglinton on Thursday night. | |
| Police said the attack was a "clear attempt to murder" officers. The wife of the officer concerned was also a member of the PSNI. | |
| A neighbour of the two police officers said that the police woman disturbed someone outside her house by knocking the window. | |
| 'Noise' | |
| "I have been talking to the couple and they are both shocked but have took it very well," he said. | |
| "She said that she was in bed and heard a noise outside. She came to the window and and seen the boy lying underneath the car. | |
| "She rattled the window and he jumped out and ran away." | |
| The device was discovered at Glenrandel in Eglinton in the early hours of Thursday morning and fifteen houses were evacuated. | The device was discovered at Glenrandel in Eglinton in the early hours of Thursday morning and fifteen houses were evacuated. |
| The man arrested by the PSNI has been taken to Antrim police station for questioning. |