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10/10/2008
Suspicious Device Declared A Hoax
A suspicious device found in the grounds of a school in west Belfast has been declared a hoax.
Army experts were called to St Colm's High School at Summerhill Drive this morning after the caretaker came across the device.
Police cordoned off the scene and the principal sent the children home for the day as soon as the device was discovered.
The road has now been re-opened.
(CD/JM)
Army experts were called to St Colm's High School at Summerhill Drive this morning after the caretaker came across the device.
Police cordoned off the scene and the principal sent the children home for the day as soon as the device was discovered.
The road has now been re-opened.
(CD/JM)
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Yet another security alert - which closed St Colm's High School in the Twinbrook estate on the outskirts of west Belfast this morning - has now been declared a hoax. Police who cordoned off Summerhill Drive, Summerhill Mews and Thornleigh Crescent while they investigated reports of a suspicious object later declared that it had been another hoax.
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