Hoax alert in Newtownabbey ends

Published Friday, 01 March 2013
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An overnight security alert in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, has now ended.

Hoax alert in Newtownabbey ends
Police and the bomb squad attended the alert. (© UTV)

A suspect device was reported in the O'Neill Road area on Thursday evening.

Police and army bomb squad officers were called but the item was found to be a hoax.

The road was closed for a time but has now been reopened.

There have been three security alerts this week in Newtownabbey - a device temporarily closed the M5 motorway on Tuesday night, while another forced a number of homes to be evacuated in the Altnacreeva Park area on Wednesday.The three have all turned out to be hoaxes.

Police have asked anyone with information to come forward.

© UTV News
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alan in right were the device is wrote (85 days ago):
im sitting here with the bomb squad sitting 50 ft from my front door. so much for sleep.
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