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Security alerts disrupt residents and rail services | |
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Security alerts in County Armagh and Londonderry have been causing a significant amount of disruption. | |
Two suspicious objects have been found in Lake Street, Lurgan. Army bomb officers are at the scene. | |
Train services through Lurgan have been affected, with bus substitutions in place. | |
Meanwhile, homes have been evacuated in Derry due to separate alerts in the city. A controlled explosion has been carried out at Mimosa Court. | |
Another alert is under way in the vicinity of Strabane Old Road. | |
The YMCA centre in Drumahoe has been made available for residents. | |
DUP deputy mayor of Derry Gary Middleton said people were annoyed that they had been put of our their homes. | |
"Details are quite vague at the moment, but we have been told that a device has been left at an elderly person's home so the motivation for this is very, very unclear," he said. | |
"Regardless of the reasons behind it, it's completely unacceptable. What purpose is this serving?" | |
Due to the alert in Lurgan, bus substitutions are operating between Lisburn and Portadown and between Belfast Central and Newry for the Dublin Enterprise services. | |
DUP MP David Simpson said continuing alerts could have a wider effect. | |
"If they keep doing it they are going to ruin the economy of Northern Ireland," he said. | |
"We've had the G8, we've had the economic conference, we are trying to get inward investment and they will try and destroy that. But people are more resilient than that." |