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| Bomb alert in north Belfast was a hoax | |
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| Police have now said a bomb alert in north Belfast was a hoax. | |
| Army bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object that was found on the Cavehill Road, close to a police station. | |
| A former Sinn Fein councillor, Mick Conlon, said he found the object while walking on the road on Monday evening. | |
| It had been left at the rear of Antrim Road PSNI station, in an area that is also close to Mr Conlon's home. About 35 houses were evacuated. | |
| Mr Conlon told the BBC: "I was coming down the Cavehill Road earlier on and I noticed a carton of soup with black wires around it - black tape, black wires." | |
| He said he called out to a man who was standing at the door of a nearby house and asked him what he thought the object was. | |
| "We went over and had a good look at it and it looked very suspicious," Mr Conlon said. | |
| "There were people coming home from work, there were kids in the park so we thought we better phone in the police to get the bomb squad up." | |
| He said Army bomb disposal officers arrived quickly and carried out a controlled explosion. | |
| Mr Conlon added that many of his neighbours, including elderly people were forced to leave their homes "on a cold night" due to the hoax alert. | |
| The Cavehill Road was closed between the Antrim Road and Willowbrook Gardens during the operation. It has now reopened. |