Army diffuses suspect device near flats

RESIDENTS in a Dublin block of flats said their children could have been killed by a pipe bomb discovered in an empty box of Pringles crisps yesterday morning.

The army bomb disposal unit said the device was not a hoax and would have exploded if it were not discovered by a caretaker who came to clean the flats.

The Defence Forces said it was “sinister” that the bomb was left in an empty crisp container, and this was particularly worrying because it could have attracted the attention of children.