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2 explosions in Northern Ireland; no injuries
January 20, 1997
Web posted at: 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT)BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CNN) - An explosion went off under a car in the Northern Ireland port of Larne on Monday but no one was reported injured.
Police said it appeared that a bomb exploded under a parked car. The area was sealed off and army bomb disposal experts were brought in. Larne is a predominantly Protestant town on the coast north of the Northern Ireland capital, Belfast.
Earlier on Monday suspected Irish Republican Army guerrillas hurled a bomb at a police station in the Short Strand area of east Belfast but no one was hurt.
The outlawed IRA broke its 1994 cease-fire 11 months ago with bomb attacks in London, and resumed hostilities in Northern Ireland in October with a double car-bomb attack inside the British army's headquarters southwest of Belfast. That attack fatally wounded a soldier and injured 39 other people.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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