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15/02/2002
Bomb made safe outside Ballymena hospital
A suspicious device has been defused by British army bomb experts in the grounds of a former hospital in County Antrim.
The alarm was raised at the Braid Valley Hospital on Ballymena's Cushendall Road on Friday February 15.
After two controlled explosions army technical officers made safe a pipe bomb type device, which was found near a pathway between the Cushendall Road and the Dunvale Estate.
A police spokesman said the item was taken away for forensic examination and enquiries are continuing.
No patients or services were disrupted by the incident.
(AMcE)
The alarm was raised at the Braid Valley Hospital on Ballymena's Cushendall Road on Friday February 15.
After two controlled explosions army technical officers made safe a pipe bomb type device, which was found near a pathway between the Cushendall Road and the Dunvale Estate.
A police spokesman said the item was taken away for forensic examination and enquiries are continuing.
No patients or services were disrupted by the incident.
(AMcE)
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