An explosion outside a police station near Belfast has been linked to the dissident republican splinter group and is being treated as “attempted murder”
Police in Northern Ireland have foiled a suspected car bomb attack, evacuating residents moments before an explosion outside a station in Dunmurry, southwest of Belfast. The authorities suspect the New Irish Republican Army (New IRA), a dissident republican splinter group, was behind the blast.
The incident occurred late on Saturday, when a hijacked vehicle carrying a gas cylinder device was parked outside the station. At a press conference on Sunday, PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said the perpetrators forced a delivery driver to take the car to the site and abandon it. Officers spotted the vehicle, deemed it suspicious, raised the alarm, and rushed to evacuate nearby homes.
“A number of residents, including two babies, were being taken to safety by officers when the device exploded, engulfing the vehicle in flames and sending debris in all directions,” he said, calling it a “cowardly attack.”
Early reports, including reporting from the Belfast Telegraph, indicate that a car bomb was detonated outside a police station in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland today. Reports claim that, like other recent incidents in the past year, a stolen car was used in the incident. Law… pic.twitter.com/JWVbPlAdHf
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No injuries were reported, which police said was “nothing short of miraculous,” though the blast caused significant damage. The incident is being treated as “attempted murder,” with a counterterrorism unit leading the investigation.
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