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15/04/2011
Pipe Bomb Find Follows Co Antrim Alerts
Three viable pipe bombs have been dealt in Co Antrim, following a spate of security alerts in the area on Friday.
Army Technical Officers examined the items, which were found at a house in Donegore Drive in the northern town of Antrim.
They are believed to be pipe bombs and have been removed for further testing.
Earlier, Antrim had been hit by several security alerts with around 20 homes evacuated this morning as police deal with the suspicious objects.
Residents from the Donegore Drive and Donegore Walk areas had to leave their homes due to the alert.
Also today, a suspicious item was found close to a GAA club on the town's Dunsilly Road, but it has since been discovered to be a piece of tubing containing a firework.
An alert in the Culnafeigh Green area is also now over after nothing suspicious was found.
A spokesperson for the North's police said that residents are still being warned to be vigilant and report anything they think is suspicious.
Today's news came in the same week as the PSNI was tasked to similar incidents and had investigated the discovery of a suspicious device in the Bushford Manor area - also in Antrim.
That security alert was later declared "a hoax" after the Army carried out a controlled explosion in the Steeple Road area and residents, who were evacuated during the incident on Monday morning, were later allowed back to their homes.
See: Fresh Alerts As Dissidents Condemned
(BMcC/GK)
Army Technical Officers examined the items, which were found at a house in Donegore Drive in the northern town of Antrim.
They are believed to be pipe bombs and have been removed for further testing.
Earlier, Antrim had been hit by several security alerts with around 20 homes evacuated this morning as police deal with the suspicious objects.
Residents from the Donegore Drive and Donegore Walk areas had to leave their homes due to the alert.
Also today, a suspicious item was found close to a GAA club on the town's Dunsilly Road, but it has since been discovered to be a piece of tubing containing a firework.
An alert in the Culnafeigh Green area is also now over after nothing suspicious was found.
A spokesperson for the North's police said that residents are still being warned to be vigilant and report anything they think is suspicious.
Today's news came in the same week as the PSNI was tasked to similar incidents and had investigated the discovery of a suspicious device in the Bushford Manor area - also in Antrim.
That security alert was later declared "a hoax" after the Army carried out a controlled explosion in the Steeple Road area and residents, who were evacuated during the incident on Monday morning, were later allowed back to their homes.
See: Fresh Alerts As Dissidents Condemned
(BMcC/GK)
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