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13/04/2007
Suspicious device found at Sinn Fein member's home
A Sinn Fein councillor and his family have been evacuated from their home in County Tyrone after a suspicious device was found.
Army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion after the device was discovered outside Ivan Barr's home in the Bridge Street area of Strabane at 8.30pm last night.
The object was later declared to be a hoax.
The bomb scare was the fourth alert in Tyrone in the past five days. A bomb had been placed outside the home of DPP member Mary McCrea on Wednesday in Sion Mills and on Sunday, a device was found in another nearby home.
(JM)
Army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion after the device was discovered outside Ivan Barr's home in the Bridge Street area of Strabane at 8.30pm last night.
The object was later declared to be a hoax.
The bomb scare was the fourth alert in Tyrone in the past five days. A bomb had been placed outside the home of DPP member Mary McCrea on Wednesday in Sion Mills and on Sunday, a device was found in another nearby home.
(JM)
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