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Two viable devices found in city alert

Published Friday, 08 March 2013

Two viable pipe bombs have been found amid a security alert in west Belfast.

Police have sealed off part of the road at Lenadoon. (© UTV)

The devices were uncovered during planned PSNI raids in the Lenadoon area on Friday afternoon and have been taken away for further forensic examinations.

Over 40 homes were evacuated while army bomb officers made the area safe.

The alert is now over, police have confirmed.

All road diversions in the area have been lifted and residents allowed back into their properties.

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lucylou in belfast wrote (74 days ago):

SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN===CALM DOWN PET ==STROKE PENDING!!==You are of course, like everyone else entitled to your opinion==wether they think it be right or wrong,mad, deluded, paranoid,daft,laughable,hate filled,or just simply your opinion!

loyalist in ulster wrote (74 days ago):

s.republican,what do you want the police to do , call at your house and show you what they found, or do you think that they would make a couple up for you to keep you happy?you state that no one seen these bombs?well nobody sees them being planted?funny that nobody sees anything, maybe they should all go to speck savers?

Socialist Republican in Beal Féirste wrote (74 days ago):

I wouldn't believe that they have found anything here. Local people did not see anything being taken away by the cops, and why would they not show the media what they found like they did in Derry etc?? and also surely if they found these in a house (which is where they were inside searching) why would they not have arrested someone? As i said before they are trying to play mind games in republican areas to win support. Also I am not "anti police"! I am anti BRITISH IMPERIALIST police in Ireland. I thought that would be obvious since my name is REPUBLICAN!!!?

realistic in planet earth wrote (75 days ago):

@Socialist Republican, you actually sound dissappointed that there have been previous security alerts and nothing was found! You really need to take a long long look at yourself lad - sad, bitter, even twisted doesn't come close to describing your mentality! grow up.

loyalist in ulster wrote (75 days ago):

socialalist republicen,so its the police who are at fault for finding these two pipe bombs, i wonder if they had exploded and killed or badly hurt locals would you be on here moaning?lets be honest about it, your a bitter republican, your anti police and you have not got the guts to state your real views, a typical waster, i am not anti republican as i feel everybody should be able to express their views.maybe next time devices are found in your area tell the locals not to ring the police, is this what you want?

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