Controlled explosion on hoax hotel bomb

AN ARMY bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on a device found at a hotel in Waterford city on Saturday, just two days after a suspect explosive device was dealt with at a house in the city.

Scores of people, including staff and guests, were evacuated from the Woodlands hotel on the Dunmore Road after a hoax bomb, which had the wiring of a real device, was found in a ditch near the back door of the hotel early on Saturday evening.

A section of the Dunmore Road was closed and parts of the hotel were evacuated in the five hours up to 10pm on Saturday, until an army bomb disposal team from Cork carried out a controlled explosion on the device.