By IRNA,
London : A car bomb, the third in two months, has gone off outside a police station in a Northern Ireland village close to the border with the Irish Republic, injuring three people but none seriously.
The explosion comes after a car bomb targeted an Army base, where Britain’s MI5 security service has its Northern Ireland headquarters, two weeks ago.
In February, there was a car bomb near a courthouse in the first attack of its kind in Northern Ireland for a decade.
It coincided with local parties reaching agreement to devolve police and justice powers.
The series of explosion come amid warnings about the increased threat to security by dissident Irish republican groups, opposed to Northern Ireland’s power-sharing agreement.
The transfer of police and justice powers is seen as a final piece of the jigsaw in the long drawn-out process to implement the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
The latest blast also comes as local parties are in the midst of campaigning for votes ahead of Britain’s general election on May 6, although none of the UK’s main parties are challenging for seats themselves in Northern Ireland.