Device driven to Derry police station was elaborate hoax ‘made to look like car bomb’

The driver was able to raise the alarm and the PSNI said a “public safety operation” was immediately implemented.

A car containing a suspect device is seen outside Waterside police station in Derry, Northern Ireland. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire. 

A vehicle driven to a police station in Derry contained an elaborate hoax device made to look like a car bomb, a senior officer has said.

Police said an obvious line of inquiry was that dissident republicans were behind an incident in the city where a delivery driver was hijacked by masked men at gunpoint and made to drive to Waterside police station on Sunday night.