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File photo of a British Army bomb disposal expert at work in Belfast last year. Paul Faith/PA Archive/Press Association Images
Northern Ireland
Taxi driver finds, removes Tyrone pipe bomb
Incident follows Monday’s pipe bomb discovery at a school in Antrim.
AN ARMY BOMB DISPOSAL squad in Tyrone had defused a viable pipe bomb discovered in Strabane this morning.
A taxi driver who discovered the device put it into his own vehicle and drove it to a nearby field before alerting police.
Andy Gallagher told the BBC he saw a number of people standing outside a house, and pulled up in case there was a medical emergency. Someone pointed out a broken car window, and he spotted the pipe bomb on the car seat.
He decided to take it to an area where it could be of no danger to others, and didn’t believe he had been in any danger while moving the device.
This is the second incident this week in which citizens have approached viable pipe bombs.
On Monday, eight-year-old Brendan Shannon discovered a “golden pipe bomb” on his school grounds in Antrim and brought the bomb into his classroom. The school was evacuated as bomb experts made the device safe.
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