A security operation in west Belfast has ended after three separate devices examined by bomb squad officers were declared hoaxes.
The suspicious objects were found on the city-bound side of the Westlink carriageway after police received a telephone warning on Tuesday morning.
The Westlink was closed in both directions between Broadway and the Grosvenor Road while the devices were examined by army technical officers.
A Sinn Féin MLA for west Belfast condemned those responsible for the hoax alert.
Fra McCann said: "Calling in a bomb warning which closed a major arterial route into Belfast has served to only one purpose, the disruption of life for people coming to and from Belfast, and shutting a main access point to Belfast's two main hospitals.
"At a time when the traffic is starting to get heavier as schools re-open after summer local communities, who use the Westlink to ease traffic along the Falls Road, are also greatly inconvenienced.
"It's high time that the groups behind these type of action stop and realise there is no support for their campaign."
Alliance south Belfast MLA Anna Lo has also expressed her disgust at those behind the bomb threat.
"I am disgusted at these mindless thugs behind this campaign. Nobody supports them, the over whelming majority of the public wants them to stop their idiotic actions," she said.
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