LONDON — An off-duty police officer was shot Wednesday in Northern Eire, the place paramilitary teams have beforehand attacked members of the safety companies.

The Police Service of Northern Eire mentioned the officer was injured in a taking pictures at a sports activities complicated in Omagh, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of Belfast. The power mentioned the officer was taken to a hospital. There was no instant phrase on his situation.

Greater than 3,000 folks have been killed throughout three a long time of violence in Northern Eire involving Irish republican and British loyalist paramilitaries and U.Ok. safety forces.

The 1998 Good Friday peace accord largely ended the battle, often called “the Troubles.” Main Catholic and Protestant paramilitary teams gave up violence and disarmed, however small Irish Republican Military splinter teams continued to mount sporadic assaults.

Politicians from each side of Eire’s political divide condemned the taking pictures.

Jeffrey Donaldson, chief of the Democratic Unionist Occasion, condemned “the cowards” behind the assault.

“These terrorists don’t have anything to supply they usually should be dropped at justice,” he mentioned.

Michelle O’Neill, vice chairman of Irish republican get together Sinn Fein, mentioned she condemned “this reprehensible try to homicide a police officer.”

Colm Eastwood of the Irish nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Occasion mentioned the taking pictures was “a chilling reminder of the horrifying violence that legal gangs are prepared to go to on the folks of Northern Eire.”

“It’s a second for us all, one neighborhood and one folks, to say we’re by no means going again to this – not in our title,” he mentioned.

Omagh is the positioning of Northern Eire’s deadliest assault, an August 1998 automotive bombing that killed 29 folks. A dissident republican group known as the Actual IRA claimed accountability for that assault,