{"id":427558,"date":"2026-05-01T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427558\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:35:13","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-murder-over-belfast-car-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427558\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted murder over Belfast car bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 66-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following a dissident republican car bomb at a Belfast police station last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The car exploded outside Dunmurry PSNI station on Saturday night after a hijacked delivery driver was forced to bring it there.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were being cleared from their homes when the device, comprised of a gas cylinder, exploded.<\/p>\n<p>No person was injured, but a number of residents and at least one police officer had lucky escapes.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they believed it was the work of the New IRA.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old man was arrested by detectives on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He has now been charged with attempted murder, possessing explosives and causing an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>He faces further charges of hijacking and possession of articles for use in terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear before Lisburn Magistrates Court in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following a dissident republican car bomb at a Belfast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-427558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}