Three men have been arrested after an armed gang ambushed and shot at a police officer in Northern Ireland last night, prompting police officers to returned fire.
The shooting took place in the village of Garrison in Co Fermanagh, around 25 miles from Enniskillen. No police officers were hurt in the attack.
Two men have been arrested by PSNI officers. Gardai in Co Leitrim arrested a 27-year-old man in Rossiver last night following the shooting. He is being questioned at Carrick-on Shannon Garda station under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act. He can he questioned for up to 72-hours.
A local member of Northern Ireland's regional assembly pointed to Republican splinter groups as the likely perpetrators of the latest shooting.
"Residents ... have said they believe dissidents were behind the attack and there is revulsion within the community that people of this ilk can take their twisted ideologies onto the streets of Fermanagh," Tommy Gallagher, a member of the SDLP party, said in a statement.
Sporadic violence in Northern Ireland has increased in recent months since Republican dissidents killed two British soldiers and a police officer in two separate attacks in March.