Village on alert after bomb find

Police in the North were today trying to establish what was behind two attempted bombings in a village in two days.

Residents of Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, were warned to be on the alert against further attacks.

In the latest incident, what police described as a "viable device" was discovered in the garden of a house in the Primrose Park area of the village. It was made safe by an Army bomb disposal expert late last night.

It was the second similar bomb to be discovered in the area since the weekend.

Dissident republicans were accused of having planted the earlier device, and another found near Lurgan, Co Armagh, last Thursday.