14/01/2002
Weapons and bombs recovered during midnight raid
Police have seized weapons and explosives following a search of a house in nationalist area of north Belfast.
The search operation, which took place shortly before midnight on Saturday, January 12, recovered four steel-cased pipe bombs packed with ball bearings and nails, an anti-personnel mine containing high explosives and two detonators. A sub machine, a large quantity of ammunition and a single barrel shotgun were also recovered.
One man was arrested following the seizure of bombs and guns at the house in Carlisle Road.
The Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said he believed the stockpile of weaponry recovered belonged to the republican paramilitary group, the Irish Nationalist Liberation Army. (AMcE)
The search operation, which took place shortly before midnight on Saturday, January 12, recovered four steel-cased pipe bombs packed with ball bearings and nails, an anti-personnel mine containing high explosives and two detonators. A sub machine, a large quantity of ammunition and a single barrel shotgun were also recovered.
One man was arrested following the seizure of bombs and guns at the house in Carlisle Road.
The Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said he believed the stockpile of weaponry recovered belonged to the republican paramilitary group, the Irish Nationalist Liberation Army. (AMcE)
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