POLICE IN NEWRY are investigating an explosion in Armagh just before midnight last night.
The PSNI said a pipe-bomb device detonated in the Ardaveen area of Bessbrook village but no injuries were reported.
Army technical officers were deployed to the scene.
Local assembly member Dominic Bradley has urged witnesses to come forward.
“I condemn those responsible for the detonation of this pipe bomb at Ardaveen, a quiet residential area, last night. In doing this they showed scant regard for life and had the circumstances been different, someone could have been killed or seriously injured by this device,” he said in a statement.
“I don’t know that these people hope to achieve. The use of violence is wrong regardless of the context and I would appeal to anyone in the area who saw or heard anything unusual to get in touch with the police.”
It is understood the device was thrown at a van outside a house in the housing estate.
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