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Pipe bomb found outside Belfast house

The PSNI said the viable pipe bomb was found in the garden of the house at Northwick Drive.

A VIABLE PIPE bomb was found outside a house in Belfast today.

The PSNI said there had been a security alert in Northwick Drive in North Belfast but that it has now ended.

They said that a viable pipe bomb type device was discovered in the garden of a house in Northwick Drive. It has been made safe by ATO and taken away for further examination.

All roads have been re-opened.

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Nov 24th 2012, 1:00 AM

It must be a genetic condition in our people that leaves them starved of the appropriate number of brain cells which result in these weird acts of attempted murder. If we gave the females of the type the proper health screening I suppose in a generation they will be bred out of the population.

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