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Three hundred and fifty children at a primary school in Belfast have been sent home because of a security alert.Three hundred and fifty children at a primary school in Belfast have been sent home because of a security alert.
Pupils were moved out of St Aidan's Primary School on the Springfield Road after the discovery of a suspicious object on the Whiterock Road. St Aidan's Primary School on the Springfield Road was closed after a suspicious object was found on the Whiterock Road.
It is closed at the junction with the Springfield Road and Glenalina Drive. A similar alert has closed Ligoneil Road between Mountainhill Road and Crumlin Road.
Army technical officers are examining a suspicious object at Ligoneil Road. The road is closed between Mountainhill Road and Crumlin Road. The alerts come a day after widespread disruption caused by hoax bomb alerts and hijackings across Belfast.
Meanwhile, the railway line at Lake Street in Lurgan which was closed because of a burnt out vehicle on the line has now been cleared. During Monday's chaos, a number of vehicles were hijacked and burnt out. Two Housing Executive workers were carrying out repairs in Ardoyne when their vehicle was hijacked.
All other roads affected by Monday's rush hour disturbances have been reopened. A device was thrown onto a lemonade van in Finaghy Road North.
The driver was told to drive it under a bridge but a spokesperson for Maine Soft Drinks Ltd said he drove it to waste ground.
North Belfast Sinn Fein MLA Carol Ni Chuilin said people living in nationalist and republican areas were badly affected by the violence.
"This is criminality here... working class republican and nationalist people put out of their homes, intimidated, robbed, attacked... how is this going to unite Ireland?" she said.
All the roads effected by Monday's rush hour disturbances have since been reopened.