Police chiefs said Sunday that they had "suspicions" over who planted a car bomb in west London that injured 11 people, as officers concluded their search of the site for forensic evidence.
Northern Ireland's police chief Sir Ronnie Flanagan said he had "no doubt" those behind the bomb in Ealing, a suburb of London, would be caught.
He told BBC television: "We certainly have suspicions, but thankfully in a liberal democracy intelligence is not evidence.
"The difficulty is, of course, that there are organisations, and there are people in organisations, that seek to exploit freedoms in a liberal democracy.
"Therefore that is why it is of crucial importance that the public at large continually work in partnership with us.
"Yes, we have our suspicions, yes I have no doubt we will bring to justice those people," he added, "but to continually engage in that sort of success we need full public cooperation and understanding."
The bomb, which exploded just after midnight Friday, is being blamed on the Real IRA, a dissident Irish republican group which fiercely opposes the peace process in Northern Ireland.
It was the seventh attack in London to be blamed on the organization since February last year.
Two people remained in hospital early Sunday following the blast, although their condition was not life-threatening -- LONDON (AFP)
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