The homes of two police personnel have been targeted by suspected dissident republicans in Derry.
An explosive device detonated outside the front door of a policeman’s house, while bomb disposal officers were deployed to make safe a suspicious object left at the home of a police doctor.
Three men - two aged 36 and the other 28 - were arrested in Derry city this morning in connection with the incidents near the village of Claudy.
The policeman’s home on the Ervey Road was unoccupied at the time of the explosion but he returned this morning to find the front of his property damaged.
The doctor, who lives in the Learmount Road area, works as a forensic medical officer for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Police have urged people living in the Claudy, Eglinton and Waterside areas to be extremely vigilant in the wake of the incidents.
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