carrying out the attack, its second bombing within two weeks. A police spokesman said the man received injuries to his thumb and lower body when the device exploded behind his isolated house near the village of Loughlinisland in County Down on Tuesday night. He and his wife, who suffered shock, were released from hospital after treatment. Loughlinisland was the scene of one of the worst sectarian massacres of a long-running conflict in the province when a pro-British guerrilla group, the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force, sprayed a pub with gunfire in 1994, killing six people. Patsy Toman, a local councillor for the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party, said the bombing had rekindled memories of that incident. "We had certainly thought those days had gone and that we were well on our way to peace, but that is not so," he told BBC radio. The Orange Volunteers claimed the bombing in a telephone call to a Belfast newsroom. The group has emerged as a dissident force over recent months in the wake of ceasefires called by major Protestant and Catholic guerrilla groups. Pro-British Protestant and pro-Irish Catholic politicians are engaged in a fragile peace process following a landmark multiparty accord reached last April.