POLICE officers have cheated injury in a dissident republican bomb attack.

They were travelling in a vehicle which was damaged by an explosive device.

PSNI chiefs said the murder bid on police as a “reckless attack”.

No-one was injured but one of the vehicle’s rear doors was damaged during the incident in Derry’s Creggan Heights.

After hitting the vehicle, the device bounced into a garden where it exploded.

The attack happened in the Creggan Heights area at 20:40 GMT on Sunday.

Chief Inspector Alan Hutton called it a “reckless attack” on police and residents, and that it was “extremely fortunate” that no-one was injured.

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said tweeted that the “attempt to kill members of the Police Service in Derry was a futile act which will achieve nothing for those responsible”.