Police investigating the death of a Catholic police officer killed in a bomb attack in Northern Ireland have arrested a 26-year-old man, as leaders from across the political spectrum attended his funeral.
Constable Ronan Kerr, 25, was killed on Saturday by a car bomb in the town of Omagh, having only completed his police training three weeks before.
Police have said the arrest is linked to the recent discovery of weapons in the Coalisland area of east Tyrone in Northern Island.
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They believe that dissident Catholic republicans opposed to the 1998 peace accords with Protestants are responsible for the attack, the BBC reported.
Political leaders have joined friends and family of Constable Kerr in mourning his death at a funeral in Beragh, Northern Ireland.
Among the mourners at the funeral were Northern Ireland's first minister Peter Robinson.
It was the first time Mr Robinson had attended a Catholic funeral.
Britain's Channel 4 News reported it was also the first funeral of a Northern Irish policeman that former IRA man and current Minister, Martin McGuinness, has ever attended.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was also in attendance.
Mr Kenny said the attack will not advance the dissidents' cause.
"The message that's gone out today is that Ireland is united, absolutely united against this kind of act," he said.
