BELFAST: A car exploded outside of a police ​station near Belfast overnight, Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday, but it said no police ‌officers had ‌been ​injured.

The ‌Police ⁠Service ​of Northern ⁠Ireland said in a statement that an evacuation operation was taking place following ⁠a security alert in ‌Dunmurry, ‌south of ​Belfast.

A ‌Belfast Telegraph reporter ‌posted an image of a burning car.

While a 1998 peace ‌deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence ⁠in ⁠Northern Ireland, police officers are still sporadically targeted by small splinter groups of mostly nationalist militants opposed to Britain’s rule over ​the ​region.