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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Failed N. Ireland car bomb highlights terror threat AFP - Monday, November 23 Send IM Story Print A police forensic team examine a car in front of the Policing Board headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A massive car bomb that failed to explode properly was designed to cause widespread destruction, police have said, underscoring the threat posed by dissident groups to Northern Ireland's fragile peace. BELFAST (AFP) - – A massive car bomb that failed to explode properly was designed to cause widespread destruction, police said on Sunday, underscoring the threat facing Northern Ireland's fragile peace. The car, containing a 400-pound (180-kilogramme) device, crashed through barriers outside the Belfast headquarters of the province's policing supervision board late Saturday and partially exploded, police said. Elsewhere, police exchanged shots with paramilitaries in a border village. Three people have been arrested. The attacks come at a delicate time for Northern Ireland's peace process. The main Protestant and Catholic parties, who share power in the province's devolved assembly, are at loggerheads over when policing and justice responsibility should be transferred from London. The threat from dissident paramilitary groups opposed to the peace process is at its highest for six years, according to the watchdog monitoring their activities, which called the situation "very serious". A police spokeswoman said two men were seen running away from the bomb-laden car after it crashed through the barriers shortly after 7 pm (1900 GMT) on Saturday. Half an hour later, a small explosion went off inside the vehicle. "Police believe at this early stage that the device only partially exploded. It had contained some 400 pounds of explosives," she said. "Had this device functioned as the terrorists planned, there would certainly have been widespread damage and destruction. It is also very probable that this 'no warning' device would have led to very serious injury or loss of life." Northern Ireland police chief Matt Baggott called it "a reckless act -- not just in doing damage but also the potential loss of life." Northern Ireland has been largely peaceful since the 1998 Good Friday agreement paved the way to power sharing between the province's Protestant majority and Catholic minority. But the killings of two British soldiers and a police officer in March this year -- the first of their kind in about a decade -- highlighted the renewed threat posed by dissident paramilitary groups. "Very clearly these people are trying to undermine the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland in recent years," said Britain's minister for Northern Ireland affairs, Paul Goggins, reacting to Saturday's car bomb. "When attacks like these happen, it brings people together with the strong message that these dissidents will not succeed," he said. "They are a small minority, they are reckless and criminally intent." Baggott said: "The terrorist situation is severe. We have substantial resources being put into investigating and thwarting these attacks." Three men were arrested in relation to the shooting incident at Garrison in the west of the province. "Police believe they foiled a planned terrorist attack," a spokeswoman said. "Two shots were fired by police, and at least one by terrorists." Previously, on September 8, army experts defused a 600-pound (270-kilo) roadside bomb near the Irish border, averting what police called a potential "devastating" explosion. Three days later, a car was damaged in an explosion carried out by dissident Republicans outside the home of a police officer's parents, while a pipe bomb was made safe near the officer's sister's house. On October 16, the partner of a Northern Ireland police officer was slightly injured Friday when a bomb exploded under her car in Belfast. Six days later, an explosive device went off inside a British army reserve barracks. 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