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| Security alert in graveyard of Coleraine Catholic church | Security alert in graveyard of Coleraine Catholic church |
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| Police are attending a security alert at a graveyard in Coleraine, County Londonderry. | Police are attending a security alert at a graveyard in Coleraine, County Londonderry. |
| A suspicious object was uncovered by a grave digger in the cemetery of St John's Catholic Church on Laurelhill Road in Coleraine. | A suspicious object was uncovered by a grave digger in the cemetery of St John's Catholic Church on Laurelhill Road in Coleraine. |
| A cordon has been put in place around the chapel and an Army bomb disposal team is at the scene. | A cordon has been put in place around the chapel and an Army bomb disposal team is at the scene. |
| Coleraine mayor George Duddy said the gravedigger found something as he was starting to open the grave on Tuesday. | |
| "He wasn't any great depth down, approximately a foot, when he came across something which he believed suspicious enough to contact the police," he said. | |
| "There is obviously going to be somebody buried there tomorrow and it may well have some form of delay in regards to that burial." | |
| He said as far as he was aware no homes had been evacuated. |