An explosion was heard at the MI5 Headquarters, The Palace Barracks in Northern Ireland just now, no casualties reported, reports are that residence across Belfast heard the blast. Residence near the Palace Barracks are being evacuated.
Reports that the bomb was driven to the Barracks via a Hijacked Taxi while the taxi driver and his family where held hostage.
Reports are that it was a car bomb that went off at the rear of the Barracks.
Blast seems to have been timed to coincide with the precise moment that policing and justice powers devolved from Westminster to Stormont and the launch of the Department of Justice NI website
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