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Police station car bomb accused appears in court
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- Eve Rosato BBC News NICharles Mc Quillan/Getty Images.
- Kieran Smyth, from Beechmount Avenue in Belfast, is charged with attempted murder, possessing explosives with intent to endanger life and hijacking.
- He was arrested three days after the bomb, which was placed in a hijacked car, detonated outside the building.
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Eve Rosato BBC News NICharles Mc Quillan/Getty Images. The bomb exploded last Saturday night outside Dunmurry Police Station A 66-year-old man has appeared before a court charged with a number of offences relating to the explosion at Dunmurry Police Station, on the outskirts of Belfast, last Saturday.
Kieran Smyth, from Beechmount Avenue in Belfast, is charged with attempted murder, possessing explosives with intent to endanger life and hijacking.
He was arrested three days after the bomb, which was placed in a hijacked car, detonated outside the building.
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