A primary school in Antrim has been evacuated in a bomb alert.
Children were moved from St Comgall’s Primary School on the Ballymena Road on Monday morning. They have taken shelter in a nearby church.
Army bomb officers are at the scene of the alert where they are examining a suspicious object.
The Ballymena Road has been partially closed. SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns said staff found what they thought was a pipe bomb.
“From what I have been told, school staff spotted what they took to be a pipe bomb behind the school,” he said.
“There is obviously a group which is determined to cause mayhem in our town with these regular pipe bomb incidents, and until we know otherwise, we have to operate on the basis that they are prepared to cause murder as well.
“This is an attack on our whole community and the whole community must respond by working with our community policing service.”
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