Nine questioned over NI murders

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Detectives are also examining a gun and ammunition seized by police in one of a series of dramatic raids staged on Saturday.

Officers are tracking the dissident republicans who shot dead two soldiers at Massereene barracks in Antrim and killed a police constable in Craigavon, Co Armagh.

Police were attacked by masked youths in the Craigavon area on Saturday after they arrested high-profile republican Colin Duffy, 41, at his home in Lurgan over the murder of the two soldiers. A police officer was injured when he was struck on the shoulder with a brick. There were also disturbances on Sunday night when youths set fire to two cars near the front of the nationalist Drumbeg estate.

Also among those arrested was 32-year-old Declan McGlinchey, son of notorious republican paramilitary leader Dominic McGlinchey who before his death was dubbed the most wanted man in Ireland.

The recent murders of security force members were carried out by the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA dissident republican groups, who oppose the peace process.

Detectives are now questioning five people over the murder of Police Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, who was killed by gunmen from the Continuity IRA in an attack launched in Craigavon last Monday night.

Police carrying out searches in Craigavon on Saturday in connection with Constable Carroll's murder also uncovered a gun and ammunition.

Detectives were granted a five-day extension to continue questioning a 21-year-old man arrested on Friday over the killing.

A further three men were arrested on Saturday morning by police probing the murders of soldiers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, who were gunned down by the Real IRA as they collected pizzas at the gates of the Massereene Barracks in Antrim on the night of Saturday March 7. Detectives investigating the attack, where a further two soldiers and two pizza delivery men were injured, also arrested a man in Antrim on Saturday evening.