Man arrested in connection with Belfast security alert
A man has been arrested in connection with a security alert in west Belfast which police described as a hoax.
British Army bomb disposal experts had earlier carried out a controlled explosion on a car abandoned outside the New Barnsley police station in west Belfast last night.
About 100 families were evacuated from their homes because of the alert have now been allowed to return home.
Police did not say if a bomb was inside the car or if a warning was given.
Yesterday a booby trap bomb was found under a soldier’s car in Bangor, Co Down.
Army bomb disposal officers carried out a series of controlled explosions on the device outside the home in the seaside town’s Chatsworth area.
And members of the public narrowly escaped injury on Tuesday morning when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in Derry.
A taxi driver had been hijacked in the city and forced to drive his car to the station after a device containing 200lbs of homemade explosive was loaded on board.
Politicians and police have condemned the incidents.
