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Security alert in graveyard of Coleraine Catholic church Security alert in graveyard of Coleraine Catholic church ends
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A security alert at a graveyard in Coleraine, County Londonderry, is continuing, the police have said. A security alert at a graveyard in Coleraine, County Londonderry, has ended.
It follows the discovery of a suspicious object by a grave digger at St John's Catholic Church. An Army bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion on what is believed to be an old-style grenade.
A security cordon, which was put in place around the area on Tuesday evening, has been reduced. It has been removed for testing along with two handguns and a quantity of ammunition, which are also thought to have been in the grave for a long time.
An Army bomb disposal team went to the Laurelhill Road cemetery, but no roads were closed and no homes evacuated. A security cordon, which was put in place around Laurelhill Road cemetery on Tuesday evening, has been removed.
Coleraine mayor George Duddy said the gravedigger found something as he was starting to open the grave on Tuesday. No roads were closed and no homes were evacuated during the alert.
Coleraine mayor George Duddy said the gravedigger found something as he was starting to open the grave.
"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 and it may well have some form of delay in regards to that burial."