A row has erupted over who was responsible for an attempted bomb attack on a police station in north Belfast over the weekend.
Both republican and loyalist paramilitaries were blamed after a pipe bomb type device was found inside a grill surrounding a security post at the front of North Queen Street Station.
British army bomb disposal experts made the device safe last night after the area was sealed off for several hours.
Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party tonight disagreed over who was responsible.
DUP councillor Mr Nelson McCausland condemned the attack and insisted republicans were to blame. "The police station is located in the New Lodge Road area and therefore this pipe bomb attack was the work of republicans. It simply confirms that republican terrorists are still manufacturing and using pipe bombs".
But Sinn Féin later accused the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association of carrying out the attack. Councillor Mr Eoin O'Broin said loyalists had done so knowing that republicans would be blamed.
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