Man has narrow escape in garden pipe bomb blast

A MAN escaped serious injury yesterday after a pipe bomb exploded in front of him outside his house in Coolock, north Dublin.

Army experts last night said the device was a “fairly elaborate pipe bomb” with “lethal potential”.

Gardaí set up a major investigation yesterday amid concerns that the Continuity IRA may have been involved in supplying the bomb.

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