Northern Ireland saw one security-related death and five bombing incidents in 2022, police figures have revealed
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Sean Fox, 42, was shot dead at a West Belfast social club in front of more than 100 people in October last year.Police believe the murder was carried out by the same gunmen who killed Mark Hall in West Belfast in December 2021. The latest figures compiled by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency from police records also show there were five bombing incidents, the same number as in 2021, and 29 shooting incidents, which is up from 27 in 2021.
The incident came just days after police said they believed another dissident republican group, the New IRA, could be responsible for an incident in which two officers escaped injury when their car was targeted in a bomb attack in Strabane, Co Tyrone.Of the shootings, most took place in the Derry and Strabane council area, while seven were recorded in Belfast and three each in Causeway Coast and Glens and Ards and North Down.
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