Authorities arrested more than five people in connection with the death of a policeman in a car bombing last April, during operations across Northern Ireland on Tuesday.
Ronan Kerr officer, died April 2 when an explosive device exploded under a car in the Highfield area near Omagh. The 25-year-old recently joined the police in Northern Ireland, said Deputy Police Chief Drew Harris at the time.
"The action today is the last step in the ongoing murder investigation Ronan and events," said Superintendent Raymond Murray. "Our determination to pursue every possible line of inquiry remains unchanged."
With the arrests Tuesday, police arrested nine people, but only one has been charged in connection with the investigation, but not murder.
A 33-year-old from Omagh was charged after an embargo of arms and explosives found in Coalisland, County Tyrone. He was arrested by detectives investigating the murder Kerr.
Northern Ireland has been the scene of frequent violence between the pro-Irish and pro-British in a period of three decades.
Around 3,500 people were killed before a power-sharing agreement known as the Good Friday Agreement was reached in 1998.
In August of this year, was the scene of the Omagh attack deadly conflict of terror in which a suicide car from the paramilitary splinter group Real IRA killed 29 people
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