Dissident republicans were blamed today after a suspected mortar bomb was fired at a police station in Northern Ireland.
The device missed the barracks in Craigavon, Co Armagh, and caused no injuries.
The police station targeted yesterday is in the Brownlow area of Craigavon, a sprawling urban centre of housing estates and roundabouts. It was blown up in 1993 by the Provisional IRA with a nearby health centre and school. There are also business premises in close proximity.
Police received a report yesterday afternoon of a suspicious device on the nearby Tullygally Road. As a search was planned a device was fired at the station. The Tullygally Road device was later declared a hoax.
Sinn Fein assembly member John O'Dowd said: "This attack was wrong and should not have been carried out. I would challenge those who claim to speak politically for these factions to tell the republican and nationalist community exactly how these sorts of activities, or indeed the recent murder in Derry advance the cause of a united Ireland one iota.
"The fact is they don't. A peaceful and democratic path to Irish unity exists and it is the path that the vast majority of republicans are now on."