Police probe attack claim by republican terror group

investigation unit are probing a claim of responsibility that Arm na Poblachta was responsible for a vehicle hijacking and subsequent security alert in the Waterside area of Derry.

“We are keeping an open mind and the investigation continues.”

The object was placed in a hijacked vehicle outside Waterside police station on November 20.

A delivery driver was hijacked by three masked men and forced to drive his car to the station, where it was abandoned.

It sparked a major security alert which led to children missing school.

Police initially said the suspicious object was an elaborate hoax but later confirmed that it was a viable explosive device.

The security attack was widely condemned by politicians in Northern Ireland.

It came days after the New IRA claimed it was responsible for an incident when two officers escaped injury when their car was targeted in a bomb attack in Strabane, Co Tyrone.

TARGET Waterside station