The incident occurred on 31 January, a day being referred to as 'Brexit day'
Officers are investigating a potential link to a ferry crossing to Scotland and a bomb found on a heavy goods vehicle in Armagh earlier this week.
On Monday, a detailed report helped locate what the PSNI are calling a"viable device" at Silverwood Industrial Estate in Lurgan.Speaking on Thursday afternoon, Detective Superintendent Sean Wright from the PSNI’s Terrorism Investigation Unit said that he believes it was"dissident republicans" who attempted the attack.
"It is clear from the information available to police that Dissident Republicans deliberately and recklessly attached an explosive device to a heavy goods vehicle in the full knowledge and expectation that it would put the driver of that vehicle, road users and the wider public at serious risk of injury and possible death.
"The only conclusion that we can draw is that once again Dissident Republicans have shown a total disregard for the community, for businesses and for wider society."
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