The armoured PSNI Land Rover discovery hit with a mortar bomb in Derry two weeks ago

POLICE officers have cheated serious injury after a bomb attack bid in north Belfast.

Senior police officers have have described the attack on one of their vehicles in north Belfast as a “cold, calculated attempt to kill police officers”.

According to the PSNI, the device was fired at an armoured police Land Rover in Twaddell Avenue at about 11.20 pm last night.

The device struck the vehicle, but failed to explode.

A section of the Crumlin Road at Ardoyne shop fronts has been closed to traffic as part of a follow-up operation.

Supt Muir Clarke described the attack as “idiotic”.

“It was a completely reckless, callous attack,” he said.

“We still have a significant police operation in the area to make sure the device is safe, that the public are safe and to recover evidence so we can bring whoever did this idiotic attack before the courts.”

Two weeks ago, police officers in Derry miraculously escaped injured when a device struck the side of their armoured Land Rover Discovery vehicle.