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Residents return home after security alert ends


Published on Sunday 16 November 2008 17:19

MYSTERY last night surrounded the motive behind planting a viable device in the garden of a house near Sinn Fein offices in Cookstown.

Residents of the Burns Road area of the town – who were moved from their homes early yesterday – last night returned after a security alert ended.

Police said a “viable device” had been found.

The road was closed for a time while the Army examined the object.

A local source last night revealed “things are not as clear cut as they may seem here”.

He said the device was planned to be perceived as a “dissident republican attack”.

“But security sources believe it could have been planted by republicans themselves or even loyalists. At this stage no one knows.”

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone said: “Whoever is responsible for this alert has no respect for the local community and have little to offer our society.”

Meanwhile, a major security alert in Newry was yesterday declared a hoax.

The Newry to Warrenpoint dual carriageway and the Old Warrenpoint Road were closed on Saturday night and for most of yesterday.

“A hoax object has been removed for further examination,” said a police spokesman.

Police also returned to the scene of a security alert in Strabane.

Homes were evacuated in the St Colman’s Drive area on Saturday afternoon as the Army examined a suspicious vehicle.

The alert was later declared to have ended as nothing was found but the police and Army returned to the scene on Sunday to resume searches.

The area was cordoned off again and a number of houses have been evacuated.

In recent days Army technical officers have been tasked to defuse pipe bomb devices on north Belfast’s Antrim Road and in the village of Coagh.


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