Belfast Bomb Attack: Children Have Lucky Escape
A group of young children picked up an unexploded pipe bomb thrown overnight at a police station in west Belfast.
Two devices were hurled at Woodbourne police station, which is close to an interface between republican Andersontown and the loyalist Suffolk estate.
No one was injured in the blast, which happened around 10.30pm on Monday and was thought to have been carried out by Republican dissidents.
Chief Superintendent George Clarke, the area’s police commander, said the children had been caught up in a reckless attack aimed at killing or maiming his officers.
He said such devices were “extremely volatile, very, very dangerous, utterly lethal and could function at any time”.