Four men arrested after car bomb exploded outside derry court house

Two men, aged 34 and 42, were arrested in the city following two earlier arrests on Sunday morning. All four men are currently being held in custody. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton

said the main line of inquiry is against the New IRA. He said: "The New IRA, like most dissident republican groups in Northern Ireland, is small, largely unrepresentative, and

determined to drag people back to somewhere they don't want to be." The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have released CCTV footage of the dramatic attack along Bishop

Street, where a group of people were seen walking past the car minutes before the explosion. The footage shows the car parked outside the courthouse, where a male driver is seen leaving the

vehicle. Just before 8pm, the bomb detonated and the car exploded in a fiery blast. Mr Hamilton believes the car, a Ford Fusion, was seized from a pizza delivery driver the night before the

attack. Police were warned about the attack moments before the explosion. He added: "We believe that some time after 6pm last night (Saturday), in the Quarry Street area of Derry, a

pizza delivery driver was hijacked. "He had his Ford Fusion car taken off him by at least two armed men. "Between then and 7.23pm, a bomb was put in that car, driven at least half

a mile to outside the court house on Bishop Street and around three minutes later a phone call went in to the Samaritans in West Midlands in England, which was then passed to West Midlands

Police who then contacted us. "In the intervening minutes we had already found the car and started to evacuate the area. At around 8.09pm, the bomb detonated. "Fortunately it

didn't kill anybody and fortunately it didn't cause widespread damage, but clearly it was a very significant attempt to kill people in the local community." No one was injured

in the attack. He added: "Thankfully the attackers failed to kill or injure any members the local community out socialising and enjoying the best of what the city has to offer.

"The people responsible for this attack have shown no regard for the community or local businesses. "They care little about the damage to the area and the disruption they have

caused."