Updated 18.35
A NUMBER OF HOMES and business premises were evacuated in Armagh earlier today as the PSNI attended to a security alert in the Killylea Road area.
The Navan Centre & Fort was also closed to the public as Ammunition Technical Officers (ATO) were deployed to the scene.
ATO carried out a number of controlled explosions in the area but have now finished at the scene. The PSNI said the object at the centre of the alert has been declared “an elaborate hoax”.
It has been taken away for further forensic examinations.
The PSNI have now advised that the following roads have all been reopened: the Killylea Road between Ballycrummy Road and Baltarran Road; the Navan Fort Road between Ballycrummy Road and Ballyhoy Road and the Ballyrath Road and Baltarran Road.
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