Northern Ireland: Controlled explosion carried out on viable pipe bomb discovered in Co Down


Police have carried out a controlled explosion on a viable pipe bomb-type device found in Co Down.

The security alert, in Brookfield Avenue, Banbridge, has now ended, a PNSI spokesman said. Officers and ammunition experts had been called to the scene.

The device has been taken away for tests, a cordon has been removed and the road has reopened.

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Source: Belfast Telegraph