Detectives investigating an explosion outside a courthouse in Londonderry have arrested a man under the Terrorism Act, police have said.

The 50-year-old man has also been detained in connection with an armed robbery in the Meadowbank Avenue area of the city on 15 January.

Four other people - two men in their 20s, one aged 34 and a 42-year-old man - were arrested on Sunday in connection with the incident.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) released four video clips showing the moment the vehicle exploded in Bishop Street, Derry, on Saturday night.

In the footage, the Ford Fusion - which had allegedly been hijacked and stolen from a pizza delivery driver on Saturday night - is parked outside the courthouse before the male driver runs away.


It comes after another security alert in the city on Monday following a report that a van had been hijacked by three masked men who threw an object in the back before abandoning it, the PSNI said.