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East Belfast: Security alert at Newtownards Road Alliance party offices East Belfast: Security alert at Newtownards Road Alliance party offices ends
(about 7 hours later)
A security alert is underway after the discovery of a suspicious object at Alliance party offices in east Belfast. A security alert at the Alliance party offices in east Belfast has ended.
It was found at about 22:00 GMT on Wednesday. A suspicious object was found on Newtownards Road at about 22:00 GMT on Wednesday.
The Newtownards Road between the Holywood Road and Grampian Avenue has been closed. Army bomb disposal experts examined the object and have declared it to be a hoax.
Army bomb disposal experts are at the scene. The Newtownards Road was closed between Holywood Road and Grampian Avenue, but reopened to traffic just after 01:00 GMT on Thursday.
MP Naomi Long condemned the discovery outside her constituency office. Naomi Long, Alliance Party MP for east Belfast, said: "This incident is yet another senseless attack on the whole community, with the business and residential life of the local area again subjected to unnecessary disruption."
"This incident is yet another senseless attack on the whole community, with the business and residential life of the local area again subjected to unnecessary disruption," she said.
"While we are still gathering all the information around this latest discovery, I would ask anyone with information to contact the PSNI immediately.
"This is the second threat we have received in east Belfast this week, but the message is clear, those who continue to engage in bully-style tactics to target the Alliance party will never deter us from delivering the shared future everyone in east Belfast deserves," she added.