Viable items removed from the scenes of two NI security alerts

By David Young, PA

Viable items have been removed from the scenes of two security alerts in Northern Ireland.

Army Ammunition Technical Officers attended the alerts in north Belfast and Dromore, Co Down, on Thursday.

At around 8.00am, police received a report of a suspicious object in the Crumlin Road area of north Belfast.

ATO attended and removed a viable pipe bomb-type device for further examination.

A PSNI statement said: “We are continuing to work to establish a motive for this and are exploring a number of potential motivating factors.”

In Dromore, police received a report of a suspicious object at a property in the Church Street area at around 9.30am.

The object, which has been described as viable, was later removed for further forensic examinations.