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23/10/2002
Man charged over loyalist weapons find
Police have charged a 38-year-old man in connection with the an arms and ammunition find in Newtownabbey yesterday.
The man was arrested after police uncovered a quantity of long and short arms, pipe bombs, a booby-trap device and a substantial amount of ammunition in the roof space of a building in the loyalist Rathcoole estate.
The police said a sophisticated keyhole-type bomb, which is designed to go off when a door is opened, was also recovered. Police are linking the find to the loyalist paramilitary organisation Ulster Defence Association.
The weapons are undergoing forensic examination to see if any of them have been used during the recent spate of loyalist attacks.
(MB)
The man was arrested after police uncovered a quantity of long and short arms, pipe bombs, a booby-trap device and a substantial amount of ammunition in the roof space of a building in the loyalist Rathcoole estate.
The police said a sophisticated keyhole-type bomb, which is designed to go off when a door is opened, was also recovered. Police are linking the find to the loyalist paramilitary organisation Ulster Defence Association.
The weapons are undergoing forensic examination to see if any of them have been used during the recent spate of loyalist attacks.
(MB)
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