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POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland have said that a viable pipe bomb found on an Armagh street had the potential to kill or maim.
It is the second viable explosive device found in the North within 24 hours.
The device was found following reports of a suspicious object in the Alexander Avenue area of Armagh this morning.
Homes in the area were evacuated for more than three hours this morning while the PSNI bomb squad carried out an investigation of the object. Police have now taken away the pipe bomb for further examination.
PSNI Chief Inspector Davy Beck condemned the people who made the viable device.
“It had the potential to kill or maim anyone who was near it if it had went off and I believe the vast majority of the community here do not want this dangerous activity in their area,” he said.
He appealed for anyone with any information about the device to contact the PSNI.
Separately, police found a viable device during a search of a street in Lurgan on Friday, which dissident republicans are believed to have been responsible for.
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It’s not exactly big news ppl are tripping over them every day in Dublin .
big news? It was to my family that live there. My mum and dad had my 3 nieces and my nephew spending the weekend at their house, all below the age of 10. It scared the life out of them. It’s a small, friendly estate which I grew up in. Mostly consists of children and elderly people… i am completely disgusted in these people. So should you. It might not be big news to you but just imagine you were in that position with little kids, just think before you type nonsense.
Is that not their intention.
It’s great to see how the sectarian Neanderthals have moved on like the people that declared Gerry Adams a saint wants to make us believe here in the Journal time after time…
‘Cause here we go go go again.
What a boring troll.
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