Army Blows Up Bomb Near Hotel

The British army carried out a controlled explosion of a 1,000-pound bomb planted near a lakeside hotel, the first device found since the Irish Republican Army declared a truce last month. The device was in an abandoned car and was believed to have been planted by a breakaway republican group. There were no injuries in the incident at Lisbellaw, in the country’s west. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb. Police said they were alerted to the device by two telephone calls but gave no further details. Although Northern Ireland’s key pro-British and Irish nationalist guerrilla groups have declared cease-fires, many breakaway organizations have not.