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11/01/2006
Security alert in Armagh
Police have cordoned off a section of Armagh City Centre due to a security alert.
Army bomb experts are examining a suspect vehicle in the Friary Road area, and the Armagh City Hotel has been sealed off.
This followed another alert this morning in North Belfast, when a suspicious device was found on the Cavehill Road.
Police said that Army techical experts had carried out a controlled explosion on pipe-bomb type device left outside a pub. A number of items have been removed for forensic examination.
The road, which was closed off during the alert, has been re-opened.
(EF/SP)
Army bomb experts are examining a suspect vehicle in the Friary Road area, and the Armagh City Hotel has been sealed off.
This followed another alert this morning in North Belfast, when a suspicious device was found on the Cavehill Road.
Police said that Army techical experts had carried out a controlled explosion on pipe-bomb type device left outside a pub. A number of items have been removed for forensic examination.
The road, which was closed off during the alert, has been re-opened.
(EF/SP)
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