School evacuated after boy picks up pipe bomb
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When Brendan Shannon aged 8 went to school he says he saw a 'golden pipe thing' in the playground so he picked it up and took it into the classroom. The police are stating it was a viable device after all 400 children were moved away from the school.
From reading the article, it sounds like another school in Antrim received a telephone warning via a local media outlet, but no devices were found.
""To target the general public is never acceptable by any means but to take away the secure feelings of innocent children and to put them at risk like this is beyond despicable.
"It is by sheer good fortune that we are not dealing with a severely injured child right now."
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns said: "There is obviously a group which is determined to cause mayhem in our town with these regular pipe bomb incidents, and until we know otherwise, we have to operate on the basis that they are prepared to cause murder as well. "-BBC
From reading the article, it sounds like another school in Antrim received a telephone warning via a local media outlet, but no devices were found.
""To target the general public is never acceptable by any means but to take away the secure feelings of innocent children and to put them at risk like this is beyond despicable.
"It is by sheer good fortune that we are not dealing with a severely injured child right now."
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns said: "There is obviously a group which is determined to cause mayhem in our town with these regular pipe bomb incidents, and until we know otherwise, we have to operate on the basis that they are prepared to cause murder as well. "-BBC
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