CHILDREN FIND FIREBOMBS IN DUNDALK
Children find firebombs in Dundalk
By Michael Devine
GARDAI are investigating 48 incendiary devices found in Dundalk. There was speculation that the devices may have been dumped by the Real IRA in the wake of the Omagh bombing.
The devices, which were not ready for use were found by children in a bag hidden in shrubbery in a field on the Cox's Demense estate in the town.
Irish Army bomb disposal experts who were called in declared that the devices were not primed and they were handed over to gardai for forensic examination.
Commandant Eoin O'Neachtain of the Irish Army Press Office said: 'Our bomb disposal earn was called to check out and render safe a bag which had been found by children and declared that the devices were not primed and they have been handed over to the gardai for forensic examination.
They didn't have all the components to-gether which would cause them to go off. It would suggest that they were being either got rid off or being stored."
It is thought the devices consisted of plastic cassette cases, explosive substances and time switches but did not contain batteries to power an explosion.
By Michael Devine
GARDAI are investigating 48 incendiary devices found in Dundalk. There was speculation that the devices may have been dumped by the Real IRA in the wake of the Omagh bombing.
The devices, which were not ready for use were found by children in a bag hidden in shrubbery in a field on the Cox's Demense estate in the town.
Irish Army bomb disposal experts who were called in declared that the devices were not primed and they were handed over to gardai for forensic examination.
Commandant Eoin O'Neachtain of the Irish Army Press Office said: 'Our bomb disposal earn was called to check out and render safe a bag which had been found by children and declared that the devices were not primed and they have been handed over to the gardai for forensic examination.
They didn't have all the components to-gether which would cause them to go off. It would suggest that they were being either got rid off or being stored."
It is thought the devices consisted of plastic cassette cases, explosive substances and time switches but did not contain batteries to power an explosion.
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Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0255
Published Date: 25-Aug-98
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