PSNI realise hoax bomb is actually viable day after finding it in Belfast

A suspicious object originally deemed to have been an elaborate hoax bomb was actually a viable explosive device, police have said.

PSNI realise hoax bomb is actually viable day after finding it in Belfast

A suspicious object originally deemed to have been an elaborate hoax bomb was actually a viable explosive device, police have said.

The object was found on the Springfield Road in west Belfast on Thursday.

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