08/08/2003
Children escape injury after picking up pipe bombs
Police have told parents to warn their children not to touch anything suspicious after a number of pipe bombs where found by youngsters in Co Armagh yesterday.
The explosives were found by the children who were playing behind a block of flats in the Westland Road area of Portadown.
Police said it was a "miracle" that none of the children who lifted the devices were killed or injured.
Elsewhere, a mother and her 10-year-old son were recovering from shock today following a robbery at a petrol station in Co Antrim last night.
The incident occurred when two masked men entered the Glen Service Station on the Ballyclare Road in Newtownabbey and held a knife to the woman's throat demanding money.
Her son was then taken into a storage room and threatened with a crowbar.
The men are believed to have escaped with a sum of money.
(MB)
The explosives were found by the children who were playing behind a block of flats in the Westland Road area of Portadown.
Police said it was a "miracle" that none of the children who lifted the devices were killed or injured.
Elsewhere, a mother and her 10-year-old son were recovering from shock today following a robbery at a petrol station in Co Antrim last night.
The incident occurred when two masked men entered the Glen Service Station on the Ballyclare Road in Newtownabbey and held a knife to the woman's throat demanding money.
Her son was then taken into a storage room and threatened with a crowbar.
The men are believed to have escaped with a sum of money.
(MB)
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