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    Autobombe explodiert vor Polizeistation in Nordirland

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    1. bendubberley_ on

      > LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have condemned a car-bomb attack on a police station as an attempt to undermine the 1998 agreement that brought peace to the region.

      > The bomb, fashioned from a compressed gas cylinder, exploded as police were evacuating nearby residents in Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, on Saturday night, Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton told reporters on Sunday.

      > “This clearly demonstrates that what this type of device may have lacked in terms of its sophistication and scale, it more than made up for in its reckless unpredictability,” Singleton said. “For a device like this to have been deployed against police and in such proximity to the public was idiotic. It was absolute madness.”

      > The incident took place at about 10:30 p.m. after the attackers stopped a delivery driver, placed an improvised bomb in his vehicle and ordered him to drive to the police station, Singleton said.

      > Brendan Mullan, chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, said the device “was sent to kill officers and cause maximum harm in an attack which was in the heart of a residential area.”

      > “The people have spoken when they overwhelmingly endorsed the Good Friday Agreement” in 1998, Mullan said.

      > “Such acts of violence have no place in a society committed to peace. We stand united in condemnation of those responsible for this terror, and in voicing support for the work of the officers and staff of the PSNI.”

    2. GreyClay on

      How traumatic for the poor delivery driver!

      *The incident took place at about 10:30 p.m. after the attackers stopped a delivery driver, placed an improvised bomb in his vehicle and ordered him to drive to the police station, Singleton said.*

    3. sthlmsoul on

      Has anybody taken responsibility yet? During the troubles various groups were oftentimes rather quick to get attribution.

    4. cowboysted on

      That this happened a day after the Sinn Fein Ard Feis. That doesn’t seem like a coincidence. It smells like an anti-SF dissident „show of strength“.

      Edit, day of the Ard Feis actually.

    5. OkCoconut3270 on

      What the fuck kinda troglodytes are still at this shit?

      What is it they’re looking to achieve here? Undo the GFA and go back to „the good old days“?

    6. StephenHunterUK on

      I’ve been to Belfast and their police stations are built like fortresses. The „peelers“ carry firearms routinely, unlike in Great Britain.

    7. shitposts_over_9000 on

      I mean, that situation for many was an armistice at best, hasn’t progressed in decades, and the UK is the weakest it has been in centuries…

      This should not be much of a surprise to anyone.

    9. azcat92 on

      In a world going to shit the last thing we need is to start up “the troubles” again. For Christ’s sake can we have one place be calm?

    11. blow_on_my_trombone on

      If the Northern Irish go at it again we (the uk) should just leave them to it. Most people in the uk don’t care what happens to Northern Ireland, they are a headache that we could do without.

    12. racsssss on

      Oh are we doing war in the middle-east, new cold war, trouble in Northern Ireland and Falklands War II this year? Seems like a lot, could we maybe split things up a bit

    15. Boudica4553 on

      I actually heard it from where i live and i live nearly 2 miles from it, albeit i just thought a neighbour had slammed the door really loudly until i saw the news in the morning.

    17. aqa5 on

      When the violence causes silence
      We must be mistaken
      It’s the same old theme, since 1916
      In your head, in your head, they’re still fightin‘

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