Political leaders say Lurgan attack attempt was ‘appalling’ and ‘deeply chilling’

PSNI officers from the Tactical Support Group (TSG) search outside the police station in Lurgan, Co Armagh after a delivery driver was threatened at gunpoint and forced to drive his car with an object inside to the town's police station, sparking a security alert. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Ireland’s leaders have described an attempt at a proxy bomb attack on a police station in Northern Ireland as “appalling” and “deeply chilling”.

Dissident republicans have been blamed for the incident late on Monday which saw a food delivery driver hijacked in Lurgan and forced to drive a “crude but viable” device to the Co Armagh town’s police station.