A car burst into flames after crashing through a barricade near the Policing Board headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Saturday evening, said police officials on Saturday.
Police officials said that the car through a barrier into the Clarendon Dock area in Belfast city center early on Saturday evening, before bursting into flames. A security alert was issued soon after the incident, and military bomb experts are currently examining the car for traces of explosives.
No injuries or damages were reported in the incident, except to the rear of the car involved. Witnesses said that two men were seen making off in another car.
No one has claimed responsibility for the incident yet. Though dissident republicans are suspected of involvement, police are yet to recover any evidence linking then to the incident.
Also on Saturday, shots were fired at police in a County Fermanagh village near the border with the Irish Republic. Police have cordoned off the area and are currently searching for the attackers in the nearby woodland.
No injuries were reported in the attack, which happened in the village of Garrison, some 20 miles from Enniskillen, on Saturday evening. Security officials suspect the involvement of dissident republicans in the shooting.
In the recent past, Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter groups have launched several attacks on police officers in an effort to stall Northern Ireland's peace process and to discourage Catholics from joining the province's police force.
While the Real IRA, a republican dissident group, claimed responsibility for the killing of the two British soldiers in March in the first fatal attack on British troops in Northern Ireland for over 12 years, the Continuity IRA, another republican splinter group, claimed the killing of a police officer in the same month.
IRA splinter groups oppose the Good Friday agreement of 1998, which ended 30 years of sectarian violence that left about 3,600 people dead in Northern Ireland. The groups oppose British rule in Northern Ireland, and want the province to leave the United Kingdom and become part of the Republic of Ireland.
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