Car explodes outside police station in Northern Ireland, no injuries reported

A car exploded outside of a police station near Belfast overnight, Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday, but it said no police officers had been injured.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement that an evacuation operation was taking place following a security alert in Dunmurry, south of Belfast.

“Members of the public are asked to avoid the area,” the statement read. “Cordons are in place and an evacuation operation is underway.”

According to local media, the vehicle that exploded may have been a stolen car.

A Belfast Telegraph reporter posted an image of a burning car.

While a 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, police officers are still sporadically targeted by small splinter groups of mostly nationalist militants opposed to Britain’s rule over the region.