A group of children are thought to have had a narrow escape after two bombs were thrown at a police station in Northern Ireland.
One device exploded outside Woodbourne PSNI station in Stewartstown Road in west Belfast just after 10.30pm on Monday.
The other failed to detonate and the scene was cordoned off.
Democratic Unionist councillor Brian Kingston claimed eyewitnesses reported that a group of primary school age children had lifted one of the bombs.
He said: “A group aged around nine, 10, 11, mixed boys and girls, came round the side of the police station carrying an object.
“They placed an object on the ground and they scarpered.
“What had happened was that the children had found a second device at the rear of the police station and had decided to carry this round the side of the station.”
Mr Kingston added: “This is a combination of childhood innocence and a terrorist attempt to maim and kill.
“The thought of what could have happened to those children if that device had exploded they could have been ripped apart it doesn’t bear thinking about.”
Army bomb experts were called to the area, which remains sealed off this morning.
A police spokesman said there were no reports of any injuries or damage.