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Cookstown attack: Partially exploded pipe bomb found under vehicle | Cookstown attack: Partially exploded pipe bomb found under vehicle |
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The MP for Mid Ulster has said anyone passing by a house where a pipe bomb partially exploded on Saturday could have been seriously injured. | |
Francie Molloy was speaking after the device exploded under a car at a house on the Orritor Road in Cookstown. | |
No-one was injured in the explosion and the remains of the device were removed. A number of residents moved from their homes have been allowed to return. | |
Police have said a motive for the attack has not yet been established. | |
However, the vehicle's owner is not believed to have any links to the security forces. | |
Mr Molloy said police had to find whoever was manufacturing the pipe bombs and take them out of circulation. | |
"They are lethal - this one partially went off, it could have all gone off," he said. | |
"Someone could have been injured who was passing by, who had no connection with it. | |
"Someone lifting this, a young person walking past it, an elderly person seeing it lying there - any of those things could have happened." | |
SDLP assembly member Patsy McGlone said he "totally condemned" those responsible. | SDLP assembly member Patsy McGlone said he "totally condemned" those responsible. |
"Residents had to leave their homes whilst security forces removed the device," Mr McGlone said. | "Residents had to leave their homes whilst security forces removed the device," Mr McGlone said. |
"I am only grateful that no-one was injured in what was a reckless act by those who planted the pipe bomb." | "I am only grateful that no-one was injured in what was a reckless act by those who planted the pipe bomb." |