Car Explodes Outside Police Station in Northern Ireland, Belfast Telegraph Reports

BELFAST, April 26 (Reuters) – ⁠A ⁠car exploded ⁠outside of a police ​station near Belfast overnight, ‌Northern Ireland’s Belfast ‌Telegraph newspaper ⁠reported ⁠on Sunday, but it said no police ​officers had been injured.

The Police Service of ​Northern Ireland said in a ⁠statement that ⁠an evacuation ⁠operation was ​taking place following a security ​alert ⁠in Dunmurry, south of Belfast.

A Belfast Telegraph reporter posted an ⁠image of a burning car.

While a 1998 ⁠peace deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, police officers are still sporadically targeted by small splinter groups ⁠of mostly nationalist militants opposed to Britain’s rule over the region.

(Writing by ​Conor Humphries; Editing by ​Andrea Ricci)

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