50 homes evacuated as pipe bomb defused

MORE than 50 households had to be evacuated for several hours after a viable pipe bomb was discovered in a Cork suburb.

The alert was raised at 10.30am yesterday when the owner of a green Ford Focus discovered that one of the windows in the vehicle had been smashed.

He discovered a bag had been thrown inside which contained an improvised explosive device (IED).

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