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Evacuato un asilo a Strabane e nuovo allarme bomba in Upper Crumlin Road a Belfast

Nessuna tregua per gli artificieri chiamati ad un superlavoro quasi a cadenza quotidiana. Un secondo allarme sta tenendo in queste ore in balia delle forze di sicurezza l’area di Crumlin Road, dopo che nella giornata di ieri era stato trovato un ordigno definito ‘letale’. Un dispositivo sospetto è stato rinvenuto questa mattina in Upper Crumlin Road. Cordonata la zona tra l’interfaccia di Ardoyne e Ballysillan Road.
In mattinata un altro allarme bomba, questa volta a Strabane nella contea di Tyrone.
L’allerta è stata lanciata alle 8.30 circa di questa mattina quando è stato sfondato il finestrino di un’automobile e il proprietario, Andy Gallagher, ha visto al suo interno quella che è una pipe bomb. Gallagher, autista di taxi, ha poi condotto l’auto nei pressi di un campo in Bradley Way nel tentativo di allontanare il ‘pericolo’ dal centro cittadino.
Anche in questa occasione l’allarme coinvolge una scuola. Dopo St Comgall’s Primary School e St Joseph’s School evacuate lunedì 6 settembre, ieri è stata la volta della Crumlin Integrated Primary School. Oggi ad essere sgomberato è stato un asilo.

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Nursery evacuated in Strabane alert (U TV)
A children’s nursery has been evacuated during an ongoing security alert in Strabane.
Army bomb experts are examining a suspicious object found on waste ground at Bradley Way. The road has been cordoned off.
The alert began around 8.30am after a car window was smashed outside a house in Ballycolman Lane.
The owner found what he thought was a pipe bomb inside.
UTV’s Gareth Wilkinson said: “It has now emerged a local community worker picked up the device and walked a considerable distance with it to leave it on waste ground behind a supermarket on Bradley Way near the centre of the town.”
Local councillor Eugene McMenamin has hit out at those responsible.
“Who is going to have the death of a child on their conscience before we see sense and desist from these disgraceful attacks?” he said.
According to the SDLP representative, serious disruption has been caused through a main arterial route of the town.
Speaking from the scene, Mr McMenamin said: “It’s caused quite a bit of confusion and disruption and immediately, we have to ask, for what end this has happened.
“The device has been left near a car and it’s obvious it was intended to cause harm and serious disruption.”
He added: “There are a number of businesses – including a children’s nursery play centre and the local bus depot – evacuated and after the initial fear, local feeling has quickly turned to anger that this has occurred in Strabane.”
It comes after Monday’s pipe bomb attack in Antrim, in which an eight-year-old pupil at St Comgall’s Primary School picked up the viable device.
The school had to be evacuated while the area was made safe.
A second school – St Joseph’s on the Greystone Road in Antrim – was also evacuated on Monday after a telephone bomb warning. Nothing suspicious was found.
Meanwhile Crumlin Integrated Primary School remains closed for a second day after a device was left inside the perimeter fence of a nearby unmanned PSNI station on Wednesday morning.