PSNI find weapons haul on top of hot boiler which caught fire in Belfast

A dissident republican weapons haul has been discovered in a residential boiler house that caught fire in Belfast, police have said.

PSNI find weapons haul on top of hot boiler which caught fire in Belfast

A dissident republican weapons haul has been discovered in a residential boiler house that caught fire in Belfast, police have said.

Two AK47 assault rifles, two sawn-off shotguns, a high-powered rifle with a silencer fitted, three pipe bombs and more than 100 assorted rounds of ammunition were stored in the building that went on fire on Rodney Drive in west Belfast on Wednesday.

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