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Semtex, un mortaio e altre armi sequestrate nel week end di Pasqua

Semtex, mortar found in dissident republican searches

Semtex explosives and a horizontal mortar were among weapons found during searches targeting dissident republicans over the Easter weekend.

Polizia | Police | PSNIPolice have released more details about what was found during the searches in south Armagh and east Tyrone.

Also found were 25 kilos of home made explosives, an automatic weapon, a silencer, ammunition, three timer power units, booster tubes and a detonator.

The searches followed the arrest of three men in Keady on Good Friday.

The men were subsequently charged after a number of weapons – including machine guns and rifles – were found in a car they were travelling in.

They have not been charged in connection with the other weapons found in the follow-up searches.

The horizontal mortar found in the later searches contained more than half a kilo of Semtex.

There have been a number of significant arms finds by the PSNI since dissident republicans murdered Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh on 2 April.

Days after the murder rifles, detonators, component parts for rocket launchers and explosives were found in the Coalisland area of County Tyrone.

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