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01/11/2010
Belfast International Airport Bomb 'Viable'
Just over a week after a royal visit to the North's main airport, the police have called in Army bomb experts to examine a suspicious vehicle left at the long-stay car park.
Belfast International Airport's flights were not affected, but some passengers were unable to get home without their cars as the area was sealed off from around 2.30pm on Saturday until the alert ended at 2am yesterday.
The vehicle was removed for examination and the PSNI said that a suspected flammable liquid was found along with a viable device - thought to have been a pipe bomb.
Now, detectives have appealed to anyone who noticed a grey Toyota Carina, registration number PDZ 2001, to contact them.
Saturday night's alert followed a bomb find in Lurgan's Tullydagan Road.
Army technical officers carried out a number of controlled explosions on a 40kgs device in a beer keg under a railway bridge.
Both incidents are being blamed on dissident factors of the republican movement.
It is believed neither outrage was linked to bombs left on US-bound cargo planes on Friday, which are suspected to be the work of international terrorists.
See: Belfast International Airport Gets Royal Boost
(BMcC/GK)
Belfast International Airport's flights were not affected, but some passengers were unable to get home without their cars as the area was sealed off from around 2.30pm on Saturday until the alert ended at 2am yesterday.
The vehicle was removed for examination and the PSNI said that a suspected flammable liquid was found along with a viable device - thought to have been a pipe bomb.
Now, detectives have appealed to anyone who noticed a grey Toyota Carina, registration number PDZ 2001, to contact them.
Saturday night's alert followed a bomb find in Lurgan's Tullydagan Road.
Army technical officers carried out a number of controlled explosions on a 40kgs device in a beer keg under a railway bridge.
Both incidents are being blamed on dissident factors of the republican movement.
It is believed neither outrage was linked to bombs left on US-bound cargo planes on Friday, which are suspected to be the work of international terrorists.
See: Belfast International Airport Gets Royal Boost
(BMcC/GK)
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