PIPE BOMB DEFUSED IN WEST BELFAST

A police cordon erected at Tates Avenue on Friday morning during the security alert

A police cordon erected at Tates Avenue on Friday morning during the security alert

A LETHAL pipe bomb device has been found during a security alert in west Belfast.

The alert was in the Meadowhill Grange area on the Glen Road.

Police said the viable device had been taken away for examination along with a number of other items.

The search of the area is continuing for any further devices left,

However, all residents who were moved from their homes have been allowed to return.

Earlier, police reopened the Westlink in both directions following a security alert.

A suspicious object was found near the Roden Street footbridge on Friday.

Police say it was an ‘elaborate hoax’.

The Westlink was closed in both directions between the Grosvenor Road and Donegall Road.

It is the fourth alert in as many hours.

Earlier, Army bomb squad officers carried out a controlled explosion in south Belfast.

It followed the discovery of a suspicious object in the Tates Avenue area.

Police said the device was taken away “for further examination to determine its nature”.

The area has been reopened to traffic.

Meanwhile a security alert on the Shore Road at Greenisland in Co Antrim has ended after nothing suspicious was found.

The area has been reopened to traffic.

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