AP

Posted: 1:13 pm
July 13, 2009

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police in Northern Ireland say a small bomb has detonated in the city of Armagh as Protestant hard-liners paraded across the British territory. There were no injuries.

No group claimed responsibility for Monday’s blast on the Friary Road of Armagh, but police and politicians suspect Irish Republican Army dissidents. Protestants from the Orange Order brotherhood were marching on a different Armagh road when security forces spotted the suspected bomb.

Police say the bomb exploded before British army explosives experts could defuse it using a remote-controlled robot.