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Mortar bomb and command wire found at West Belfast alert Mortar bomb and command wire found in undercover operation
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It is understood police have found an improvised mortar bomb and a command wire during a security alert. An undercover surveillance operation is believed to have led to the seizure of an improvised mortar bomb in Belfast.
A 22-year-old man was arrested on Thursday night in connection with the alert in west Belfast. Police believe the operation may have foiled an attack.
The bomb was found at the junction of the Shaw's Road and the Glen Road in the city. The bomb and a command wire were found in a holdall when police stopped a man at the junction of Shaw's Road and Glen Road in the west of the city.
The find comes two weeks after dissident republicans fired a mortar at a police Land Rover as it drove along the Falls Road. A 22-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned at the Serious Crime Suite in Antrim.
Army bomb experts were called to the area to examine the device. Parts of both roads had been closed, but have now reopened. Badly shaken
West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said he had been told by police that an "improvised device" had been found. Army bomb experts made the device safe and it was taken away for forensic examination.
He said 12 families had been moved from their homes during the alert. There were road closures and 12 families had to be moved from their homes during the alert.
SDLP councillor Tim Attwood said: "This is another extremely worrying development. It follows an attack on police with a mortar device on the Falls Road only two weeks ago. The seizure comes two weeks after the dissident group calling itself the IRA fired a mortar at a police Land Rover as it drove along the Falls Road.
"Those behind these attacks, whether planned or executed, are totally reckless and have no regard for the safety of anyone, especially residents going about their daily business." A father and his three children were badly shaken when debris from the explosion hit their car.
The device was also an improvised mortar and was detonated by a command wire.
However, it is understood the incidents are not being linked.
A different dissident republican organisation calling itself Óglaigh na hÉireann is believed to have been responsible for the most recent incident.