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14/04/2010
Suspect Vehicle Disrupts Derry Traffic
The latest of a series of dissident republican security alerts is underway on the outskirts of Londonderry this morning.
Police said they received reports that a suspicious object had been left in a 24-seater bus on the junction of the Springtown and Groarty roads.
Traffic is being diverted from the area and police have advised motorists and members of the public to avoid the area.
Yesterday evening, the Army defused a bomb in a car abandoned outside the police station in Newtownhamilton in Co Armagh and said that the cordon at the scene had been reduced and families have been allowed to return to their homes as a forensic examination is continuing.
The latest incident follows a car bomb attack on Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down, in the early hours of Monday.
See: Bomb Alert Closes Border Village
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Police said they received reports that a suspicious object had been left in a 24-seater bus on the junction of the Springtown and Groarty roads.
Traffic is being diverted from the area and police have advised motorists and members of the public to avoid the area.
Yesterday evening, the Army defused a bomb in a car abandoned outside the police station in Newtownhamilton in Co Armagh and said that the cordon at the scene had been reduced and families have been allowed to return to their homes as a forensic examination is continuing.
The latest incident follows a car bomb attack on Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down, in the early hours of Monday.
See: Bomb Alert Closes Border Village
(BMcC/GK)
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