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15/10/2003
Continuity IRA admits attempted Belfast bombing
The Continuity IRA has admitted responsibility for planting a bomb outside a police station in north Belfast last night.
More than 100 families were evacuated from their homes after a device placed inside a Vauxhall Cavalier was discovered parked outside York Road police station at around 9.45pm on Tuesday.
Police said the device, which consisted of a 30lb gas cylinder with a timer power unit attached, could have killed passers-by and caused widespread devastation.
Army technical experts carried out a controlled explosion on the car which was left at Castleton Avenue, a side-street off York Road.
The controlled explosion caused minor damage to some nearby houses and a local Presbyterian church.
(MB)
More than 100 families were evacuated from their homes after a device placed inside a Vauxhall Cavalier was discovered parked outside York Road police station at around 9.45pm on Tuesday.
Police said the device, which consisted of a 30lb gas cylinder with a timer power unit attached, could have killed passers-by and caused widespread devastation.
Army technical experts carried out a controlled explosion on the car which was left at Castleton Avenue, a side-street off York Road.
The controlled explosion caused minor damage to some nearby houses and a local Presbyterian church.
(MB)
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