A police officer at the alleyway where the bomb was found in Belfast’s university area Students and families in Belfast’s university area have had to leave their homes overnight after a bomb was found.
Army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion on a viable device found in an alleyway near Eblana Street.
University Street and Eblana Street have now reopened.
There is also a security alert on the Antrim Road in Glengormley. The road is closed between the Maxol filling station and Sandyknowes roundabout.
Meanwhile, a suspicious object has been reported at business premises at Longwood Road, Newtownabbey. The entrance to the firm at Mill Road has been closed.
BBC Northern Ireland reporter Conor Macauley talked to a number of people who witnessed the security operation at Eblana Street on Thursday night.
“What appears to have happened is a silver taxi was stopped by police and a couple of men were dragged out of it, another was seen lying handcuffed in the street,” he said.
“They were put in white forensic overalls and taken into custody.”
He said he believed it was a small bomb that had been found as only a few homes had been evacuated.
In a separate alert, a suspicious device found at Finaghy Road North in Belfast near the railway line has turned out to be a hoax.
The area remains closed. Trains are being allowed to pass through the halt but rail travellers are being asked to use another station.
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