11 PEOPLE HELD OVER SHOOTING OF SENIOR NI DETECTIVE

ELEVEN people have been arrested by police investigating the attempted murder of a senior detective in Northern Ireland.

Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was shot multiple times at a sports complex in Omagh, Co Tyrone, in February in an attack linked to dissident republicans. Nine men and two women, aged between 21 and 72, were arrested this morning in Omagh and Coalisland in Co Tyrone.