Belfast on alert as bomb found in store

Businesses in Belfast were put on high alert tonight after an incendiary bomb partially exploded in a city centre store.

Belfast on alert as bomb found in store

Businesses in Belfast were put on high alert tonight after an incendiary bomb partially exploded in a city centre store.

The device, planted in the JJB sports shop in the main Royal Avenue shopping street, is thought to have failed to properly detonate some time during the early hours of the morning and was discovered by staff when they arrived for work today.

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