Proxy Car Bomb Attack on Northern Ireland Police Station Echoes Troubles-Era Tactics

A fast-food delivery driver in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, was hijacked at gunpoint by two masked men who placed an improvised explosive device in his vehicle and ordered him to drive to the local PSNI station under threat of death. The driver escaped and alerted security staff. The device was assessed as crude but viable and destroyed in a controlled explosion. Approximately 100 homes were evacuated. The proxy bomb tactic, forcing civilians to transport explosives, was described as a chilling throwback to the darkest days of the Troubles. Irish nationalist militants are suspected.