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| Security alert in graveyard of Coleraine Catholic church | Security alert in graveyard of Coleraine Catholic church |
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| A security alert at a graveyard in Coleraine, County Londonderry, is continuing, the police have said. | |
| It follows the discovery of a suspicious object by a grave digger at St John's Catholic Church. | It follows the discovery of a suspicious object by a grave digger at St John's Catholic Church. |
| A security cordon, which was put in place around the area on Tuesday evening, has been reduced. | |
| An Army bomb disposal team went to the Laurelhill Road cemetery, but no roads were closed and no homes evacuated. | |
| Coleraine mayor George Duddy said the gravedigger found something as he was starting to open the grave on Tuesday. | 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. | "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." | "There is obviously going to be somebody buried there tomorrow and it may well have some form of delay in regards to that burial." |