Security alert in Belfast city centre

Scores of people have been evacuated from Belfast's city centre following a claim to a local radio station purportedly from the Continuity IRA that they left a bomb in the city's Bedford Street.

Fri, 25 Oct, 2002 - 12:04

Scores of people have been evacuated from Belfast's city centre following a claim to a local radio station purportedly from the Continuity IRA that they left a bomb in the city's Bedford Street.

The call was received at 10.10am this morning. The caller claimed the device would go off in 35 minutes.

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