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| Viable pipe bomb found in Derry alert | Viable pipe bomb found in Derry alert |
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| A viable pipe bomb has been found during a security alert in Londonderry which left a number of people out of their homes on Wednesday morning. | |
| The device was thrown at a police vehicle on Charlotte Street, in the Bogside area, on Tuesday night. | |
| Charlotte Street has reopened as have Barrack Street and the Lecky flyover. | |
| "Someone could have died. I would be very surprised if this wasn't down to one of the dissident groups here," Chief Inspector Job Burrows said. | |
| "Do they want to create headlines of murder and destruction? What they are portraying is anti-Derry." | |
| SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey said the alert had caused "major disruption". | SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey said the alert had caused "major disruption". |
| Army bomb experts were called but have since left the scene. | Army bomb experts were called but have since left the scene. |
| "I understand an object was thrown at a PSNI Land Rover. Police then cordoned off the area until Army technical officers arrived," Mr Ramsey said. | "I understand an object was thrown at a PSNI Land Rover. Police then cordoned off the area until Army technical officers arrived," Mr Ramsey said. |
| "This is utterly unacceptable and there are older people living in the area close-by who do not need this kind of disruption." | "This is utterly unacceptable and there are older people living in the area close-by who do not need this kind of disruption." |