Man holding makseshift rocket similar to one used to attack police

DETECTIVES are questioning about a man rocket attack on police last weekend after he was last night during a major security operation in Belfast.

He was one of four men arrested during an undercover operation mounted by the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit and its C3 Intelligence Branch.

During the operation, police found an AK47 assault rifle when they stopped a taxi close to Grosvenor Road police station on Thursday night.

A passenger was arrested at the scene and three other men were arrested in a follow-up operation on Friday.

The rocket attack damaged an armoured police vehicle in north Belfast on Sunday.

It struck the vehicle on Twaddell Avenue but no-one was injured.

At the time, police said the device had been fired by a man who came out of the Brompton Park in the Ardoyne area.

All four men arrested over the Grosvenor Road security operation are being questioned at the serious crime suite at Antrim police station.

The other three men aged 27, 29 and 46, were detained in the Springfield Road area of west Belfast on Friday morning.