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03/02/2011
Second Bomb Scare Hits North
The police and Army bomb experts were this afternoon investigating reports of a suspect device in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim after an object was discovered on the Reahill Road on Thursday at 12.30pm.
The road was closed and a police spokewoman said they were dealing with a "possible pipe bomb".
Meanwhile, the latest in a series of security alerts in north Belfast this morning followed the discovery of a suspicious object in the nationalist New Lodge area.
A number of houses were evacuated in Stratheden Street after the object was discovered shortly before 7am on Thursday and the police attended the scene of the alert and then declared it to be a viable device.
A controlled explosion was then carried out and the device was taken away for examination.
Residents were expected to be allowed back to their homes in late afternnon. It is the second time a device has been left in the area in recent months with a major double bomb attack also being foiled last week on the nearby Antrim Road.
(BMcC)
The road was closed and a police spokewoman said they were dealing with a "possible pipe bomb".
Meanwhile, the latest in a series of security alerts in north Belfast this morning followed the discovery of a suspicious object in the nationalist New Lodge area.
A number of houses were evacuated in Stratheden Street after the object was discovered shortly before 7am on Thursday and the police attended the scene of the alert and then declared it to be a viable device.
A controlled explosion was then carried out and the device was taken away for examination.
Residents were expected to be allowed back to their homes in late afternnon. It is the second time a device has been left in the area in recent months with a major double bomb attack also being foiled last week on the nearby Antrim Road.
(BMcC)
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