Ireland, November 22: Police in Northern Ireland have come under attack in a small village near the border with Ireland, the BBC reports, in an incident that will spark concerns of renewed violence in the province.
Police in County Fermanagh were not immediately available for comment on the report, which said shots were fired at officers in the village of Garrison. They returned fire but there were no reports of any injuries, the BBC said.
In a separate incident in Belfast, police said a vehicle was driven through the barriers at a complex where the Northern Ireland Policing Board is based and burst into flames after being abandoned near the board’s offices.
“The cause is still being established. The only damage caused was to the car itself, no one was injured,” a spokeswoman for Belfast police said, adding that army bomb disposal officers were investigating.
Two men were spotted leaving the scene at Clarendon Dock in a red car.
The British-ruled province has been largely peaceful since 1998 peace accords between the Protestant and Catholic communities.
But the killings of two British soldiers and a police officer in March – the first of their kind in about a decade, claimed by republican dissidents – highlighted the renewed threat posed by paramilitary groups.
—Agencies