Detectives carried out road stops in Dunmurry near Belfast as Crimestoppers offered a reward of up to \u00a320,000 for information about the car bomb attack on a police station two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
At around 10.45pm on 25 April a delivery driver was threatened by a masked gunman in the Summerhill area of Twinbrook, the PSNI said.<\/p>\n
His vehicle was hijacked, a gas canister-type bomb was put in the back of his car and he was told he had 30 minutes to get to Dunmurry police station before the bomb would go off.<\/p>\n
The driver raised the alarm and, as the area was being evacuated, the device exploded at around 11.15pm.<\/p>\n
Detective Inspector Campbell, from the PSNI’s Terrorism Investigation Unit, said: “This cowardly and senseless attack, which could have claimed so many innocent lives, sent shockwaves across the community.<\/p>\n
“The fact that local residents, including two babies, were being taken to safety by officers when the device exploded speaks volumes.”<\/p>\n
Last night, officers investigating the attack revisited the scene, carried out road stops, distributed appeal leaflets and spoke with pedestrians, drivers and passengers.<\/p>\n
Mr Campbell said: “I\u2019m asking you to think, for just one minute, of the utter devastation that could have resulted. And I\u2019m asking you to do the right thing.<\/p>\n
“If you have any information, no matter how insignificant it might seem, please speak to us.”<\/p>\n
The independent charity Crimestoppers have offered a reward of up to \u00a320,000 for information received directly, that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n
One person has appeared in court in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives carried out road stops in Dunmurry near Belfast as Crimestoppers offered a reward of up to \u00a320,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-477426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116549203291442326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}