Device fired at police station in Northern Ireland

An "explosive device" has been thrown at a police station in Craigavon, County Armagh, but there are no reports of injuries.

Police said Brownlow police station was targeted on Saturday evening but the station was not hit.

Army bomb experts are at the scene and a nearby road has been closed.

SDLP Assembly member Dolores Kelly said: "Republican dissidents seem to be upping their game and becoming more emboldened by recent events."

Pc Stephen Carroll was shot dead by the Continuity IRA in Craigavon last March.

A car bomb exploded close to Newry courthouse in County Down on Monday.

On Wednesday night, Kieran Doherty, 31, was bound and shot by the Real IRA in Londonderry.

Dissident republicans

At the time of Monday's car bomb, police said it was a "miracle" no-one was killed or injured. Officers had been evacuating the area when the bomb went off in New Street.

Dissident republicans opposed to the peace process are being blamed for that attack.

It came days after a mortar bomb was abandoned near a police station in the village of Keady, about 20 miles away.

In the last few years a number of large car bombs been have planted but have either failed to detonate or only partially detonated.