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Police attacked in Lurgan alert
Police have been attacked with petrol bombs in the Victoria Street area of Lurgan, as they carried out searches during a hoax bomb alert on Monday.
According to a PSNI spokeswoman, reported sightings of a gunman were also made during a number of attempts to hijack vehicles in the area of the Bells Row junction.
One car was hijacked, but recovered a short time later and police say calm has now been restored.
Officers had been examining waste ground at the old Glendinning factory, amid claims that a bomb had been abandoned in the area. The alert was later found to be a hoax.
In a separate security alert in north Belfast, army bomb experts were called to deal with a suspicious package below a car close to Tennent Street police station.
In Craigavon, a suspect device was also found on the Tullygally Road.
Both those alerts were later found to be hoaxes.