Continuity IRA claim responsibilty for pipe-bomb

The Continuity IRA has claimed responsibility for a pipe-bomb attack on a police station in north Belfast last night.

Two devices packed with nails were thrown at the barracks on the Antrim Road.

One of the bombs exploded in the front yard of the base, damaging a window grille, while the second was defused.

Police said their officers and members of the public narrowly escaped injury.

Last night's bombing follows a similar attack earlier this week on the Woodbourne police station in west Belfast, when a pipe-bomb thrown at the building failed to explode.

The Continuity IRA also claimed responsibility for that failed bombing, as well as a car bomb attack on the town hall in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, last week which slightly injured six police officers.

The dissident republican group, which opposes the Good Friday Agreement, has vowed to carry out further attacks.