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23/04/2010
Fire Service Clear Border Bomb Area
Firemen have saved many people from injuries by rapidly evacuating people from the scene of a terrorist bomb outside a border police station.
However, the explosion still left two people hurt by the blast, in Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh at 11.25pm.
The PSNI were initially warned of the situation in an anoymous call to a Belfast hospital about an hour earlier, which said that a vehicle had been abandoned.
Officers were en route to the station, which is staffed on a part-time basis, when the explosion happened.
The two people's injuries are not life-threatening. Shots are also reported to have been fired before the explosion.
The two people who were treated in hospital - a man and an elderly woman - are said to have been left "extremely shaken".
It followed an earlier, unconnected pipe bomb explosion, behind a house in Coalisland in Co Tyrone.
A man and a woman were in their home on Chestnut Hill in Brackaville when the device went off at about the same time on Thursday astne border bomb blast.
Neither person was injured, but a number of windows were damaged. It was the fifth pipe bomb attack in the west of Northern Ireland this week.
On Wednesday night a pipe bomb exploded outside a house in Limavady, County Londonderry.
(BMcC/GK)
However, the explosion still left two people hurt by the blast, in Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh at 11.25pm.
The PSNI were initially warned of the situation in an anoymous call to a Belfast hospital about an hour earlier, which said that a vehicle had been abandoned.
Officers were en route to the station, which is staffed on a part-time basis, when the explosion happened.
The two people's injuries are not life-threatening. Shots are also reported to have been fired before the explosion.
The two people who were treated in hospital - a man and an elderly woman - are said to have been left "extremely shaken".
It followed an earlier, unconnected pipe bomb explosion, behind a house in Coalisland in Co Tyrone.
A man and a woman were in their home on Chestnut Hill in Brackaville when the device went off at about the same time on Thursday astne border bomb blast.
Neither person was injured, but a number of windows were damaged. It was the fifth pipe bomb attack in the west of Northern Ireland this week.
On Wednesday night a pipe bomb exploded outside a house in Limavady, County Londonderry.
(BMcC/GK)
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