Originally published on November 26, 2013

Police in Northern Ireland are warning of a surge in dissident republican activity after a bomb partially exploded in Belfast's main commercial hub.

A man was driving his silver Renault Laguna on Jamaica Street, in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast on Sunday night, when several men in boiler suits hijacked the car before placing a 60 kg keg bomb in the back and telling him to take it to Victoria Square."

The driver abandoned his car under the Victoria Square shopping centre and alerted police at the Musgrave Street police station.

As bomb disposal experts prepared to examine the device the detonator exploded, but it failed to trigger the rest of the bomb.

The attack comes days just after a bus driver in Derry was ordered to transport a bomb on her bus to a police station by a man claiming to be from a dissident republican faction.

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