A timely tipoff has helped the Northern Ireland police discover a bomb, presumably planted by a dissident group, in Londonderry.
Police on Sunday described the bomb as a "substantial viable device" that could have caused deaths.
District Commander Stephen Martin believes a dissident republican group will accept responsibility for the attack.
"In my view it will be either the Real IRA or Oglaigh na hEireann," he said.
"It's just a highly built up residential part of the city within the walls and a device this size would have caused considerable devastation, " Martin added.
Sinn Fein MLA, Martina Anderson, also condemned this act, saying, "We are all of the view that an attack on any place in this city is an attack on us all."
"Even with people who have not been evacuated there is a sense of confusion, because in the city centre there are a lot of residential areas in and around this particular area," Pat Ramsey, SDLP representative said.
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