An attempted murder investigation is under way after a car exploded outside a police station.

Shortly after 22:50 BST on Saturday a delivery driver's car was hijacked, fitted with a gas cylinder device and he was forced to drive it to Dunmurry station.

Several residents, including two babies, were being taken to safety by officers when it exploded.

The police say they currently believe the attack may have been carried out by the dissident republican group known as the New IRA.

The car was hijacked in Twinbrook in west Belfast and the device exploded when the car was parked outside Dunmurry police station, on the outskirts of Belfast.