{"id":144605,"date":"2025-10-25T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:27:08","slug":"viable-device-discovered-in-belfast-security-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144605\/","title":{"rendered":"Viable device discovered in Belfast security alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>viable<\/strong> <strong>explosive<\/strong> <strong>device<\/strong> has been discovered following a security alert in west <strong>Belfast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The alert was sparked after a suspicious object was found in the Ardnamonagh Parade area on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A number of residents were evacuated from their homes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">West Belfast security alert update. Details here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vXA5RsNlkf\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/vXA5RsNlkf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTqr1cDs1r\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wTqr1cDs1r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Police West Belfast (@PSNIBelfastW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSNIBelfastW\/status\/1981775528332873837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ammunition technical officers attended and examined the device, which has been confirmed as viable.<\/p>\n<p>It has been removed for further forensic testing.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have returned home and all roads have re-opened.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI statement said: \u201cOfficers would like to thank the local community for their patience while they worked to make the area safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnquiries into the incident are ongoing and anyone with any information is asked to contact police in Woodbourne on 101, quoting reference number 18 24\/10\/25.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viable explosive device has been discovered following a security alert in west Belfast. The alert was sparked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-144605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115434805282308240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}