Army bomb squad called out 30 times in Mid-Ulster since 2014

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Wednesday, 15 February 2017 07:17

The army bomb squad was called out thirty times in Mid-Ulster within the last three years.

One of the call-outs resulted in the discovery of a viable device – that was in 2014.

The rest were hoaxes.

There have been more than six hundred and thirty alerts in Northern Ireland since January 2014.

The figures have been obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Q Radio News.

A senior police officer says a large proportion of resources are spent dealing with such alerts.

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