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Mortar bomb and command wire found in undercover operation | |
(about 5 hours later) | |
An undercover surveillance operation is believed to have led to the seizure of an improvised mortar bomb in Belfast. | |
Police believe the operation may have foiled an attack. | |
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. | |
A 22-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned at the Serious Crime Suite in Antrim. | |
Badly shaken | |
Army bomb experts made the device safe and it was taken away for forensic examination. | |
There were road closures and 12 families had to be moved from their homes during the alert. | |
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. | |
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. |