David Black, who was shot dead on the M1 motorway on his way to work at Maghaberry top security prison in Northern Ireland. Photograph: PSNI/PA
Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of the Northern Ireland prison officer David Black.
The arrested men, aged 31 and 44, were detained in the Lurgan area in north Armagh early on Friday.
Gunmen travelling in a stolen car fired upon the 52-year-old's Audi car on the M1 motorway near a junction leading to Portadown as he was on his way to work at Maghaberry top security prison.
The father of two was the first prison officer to die at the hands of paramilitaries since 1993 and his death has sparked fears of retaliation.
However, his family appealed for no more violence in a statement issued through a clergyman in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, where the Black family live.
Irish ministers and their counterparts in Northern Ireland are to discuss a response to the murder on Friday. The killing of David Black will be top of the agenda at the north-south ministerial council in Armagh, which is only a few miles from the scene of Thursday's terror attack by republican dissidents.
Finlay Spratt of the Prison Officers Association (POA) in the province said his members had stepped up their personal security over the past six months because of a heightened threat from dissident republicans.
He also denied that the POA had claimed individual officers had been told they would lose access to personal protection weapons.
In a message to the politicians gathering on Friday, Spratt added: "All I can say to the politicians is keep on working together … we should not let these dissidents disrupt Northern Ireland moving forward."
The head of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, Sue McAllister, also had to fend off allegations on a television station on Thursday night that personal protection weapons for prison officers were being taken away from them.
"I have checked and to my knowledge no prison officer has been told that his or her personal protection weapon is to be withdrawn," she said.
"I will certainly be making sure that any prison officer who wishes to have a personal protection weapon will be able to apply to the police service as per our procedures."
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