Republicans were today blamed for an attempted bomb attack on a police station in north Belfast.
A pipe bomb type device was found inside a security grill surrounding a security post at the front of the North Queen Street Station last night.
Army bomb disposal experts made the device safe after the area was sealed off for several hours.
No one was injured during the alert.
A police spokesman said today that an investigation was underway to determine how the device got there.
Democratic Unionist Party councillor Nelson McCausland condemned the attack and insisted republicans were responsible because of the location of the station.
"This attack comes at the end of a week of serious republican violence in east Belfast and north Belfast," he said.
"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."