The attack on the British military in Northern Ireland - two killed

Two British soldiers were shot dead, four wounded in the attack on unidentified army base in Northern Ireland. The events occurred during the night for today, announced in the last hour of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom. Begun a formal investigation.

According to the London data, the attack on British military from the engineering regiment happened when they got to the base at Maserin 25 kilometers north of Belfast ordered pizza party. Witnesses reported a long and intense crossfire.

This is the first attack in Northern Ireland to the UK military fatalities since 1997. The representative of the Ministry of Defense also confirmed that four soldiers wounded are in hospital. Their condition is assessed as "serious."

According to reports, the attackers arrived to the gate at the base van under the guise of military ordered delivery pizza. At a time when a group of British soldiers came to the car to get the order, they opened fire.

Now on the basis that has been attacked, declared anxiety contiguous to the territory closed to access. So far, authorities have not provided any information about the identity of attackers nor that whether during an exchange detain any of them.

Meanwhile, an attack on a British base has led to a sharp increase in political tensions in that part of the United Kingdom.

As stated in the last hours of a famous political figure Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Assembly member Ian Peyzli now "for all of us it was a defining moment." "The last 10 years, we felt that we could not be repeated in the events that occur in other countries, in such places as Iraq's Basra. But as it turned out we were wrong."