Group says it killed cop in N. Ireland

A dissident Irish republican group said yesterday its gunmen shot dead a policeman in Northern Ireland, the second attack in three days that has undermined the peace process in the British-ruled province.

"As long as there is British involvement in Ireland, these attacks will continue," the Continuity IRA, a paramilitary splinter group, said in a statement carried by British media.

Politicians on the both sides of the sectarian divide said the renewed violence would not derail the peace process.