Two objects found near a nursery school in Co Down on Wednesday have been declared “viable devices”.
Church Street in Dromore town centre was closed in the afternoon of April 2 due to a security alert in the area. The PSNI have now confirmed that the alert has ended and that the two suspicious objects that has been found outside a commercial premises were “pipe bomb type devices”.
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Source: MSN News
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