"The suspect is believed to have hijacked the vehicle from a male delivery driver in the Twinbrook area of west Belfast on Saturday with an accomplice, with at least one of them armed with a pistol."
"Bobby Singleton, the deputy chief constable of the PSNI, said the attack was similar in nature to one on a County Armagh police station in March and also involved masked individuals commandeering a civilian vehicle and fitting it with an explosive device."
"Singleton said that officers immediately and courageously ran into danger, placing themselves in harm's way, and evacuated nearby homes to protect the community and claimed it was nothing short of miraculous that nobody had been hurt."
A 66-year-old man faces multiple charges, including attempted murder, following a car bombing outside Dunmurry police station on April 25. The New IRA is suspected to be responsible. The suspect allegedly hijacked a delivery vehicle at gunpoint, forcing the driver to transport an explosive device to the police station. After the driver escaped, police evacuated the area before the device detonated, with no reported casualties. The attack mirrors a previous incident involving similar tactics used by the Provisional IRA.
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