Car bomb explodes near Londonderry police station

[maddezmom]

Source: BBC

It is understood a taxi driver was forced to bring the device to Strand Road police station early on Tuesday by two men armed with a gun.

No-one was injured in the explosion, which happened near an old people's home and an apartment block.

The explosion at about 0320 BST damaged the police station's perimeter wall and a number of nearby businesses. Police said a telephoned warning was given.

SDLP Mayor of Derry Colm Eastwood blamed dissident republicans for the attack.

"There seems to be a lot of wreckage; the car is completely destroyed and it seems businesses across the street have been destroyed as well," he said.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-10848505

[truthisfreedom]

1. dissident republicans. Is there any other kind?

[Ken Burch]

2. Well, yes, there is. There's the vast majority of former IRA supporters who back Sinn Fein

And are trying to make power-sharing work.

And the growing number of people from the republican community who back the People Before Profits Alliance, which seeks to build a non-sectarian AND nonviolent alternative to both existing power-sharing set-up(which is burdened by being tied to a pro-business, pro-austerity economic program)or the pointless return to the physical force party that is represented by whoever committed this particular act.

[Ken Burch]

3. Thank God they let the taxi drive out alive

Oh, and, this city should be called Derry/Londonderry. To call it just Londonderry is to use the name used only by the pro-British Protestant Unionist/Loyalist community.

[SkyDaddy7]

4. "...near an old people's home" WTF?

We in the West really have no respect for our elders huh?

Sorry, I know the this is not about the subject of the story but that phrase just pissed me off!

I am very glad no one was hurt and I just hope this does not spiral out of control again!