{"id":146574,"date":"2025-10-26T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146574\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:09:07","slug":"derry-security-alert-ends-after-discovery-of-viable-explosive-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146574\/","title":{"rendered":"Derry security alert ends after discovery of &#8220;viable&#8221; explosive device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police say that a security alert that took place overnight in the Waterside area of Derry City has now ended, after the discovery of a \u201cviable\u201d explosive device.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The alert began shortly after 5:30pm yesterday evening, when Police received reports that a device had been left at a residential property in the Campion Court area.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents were evacuated for a time, as Police Officers and Ammunition Technical Officers examined the suspicious device.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that the device was deemed to be viable, and was made safe before being removed for further forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Police said that \u201cthis device posed a serious risk to the local community. We\u2019re thankful it did not detonate before it was discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would ask that the public be vigilant to any suspicious items or behaviour in their area, and report any concerns to us immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers will continue to maintain a presence in the area today as we conduct further enquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information in relation to the incident has been asked to contact police on 101, quoting reference number 1161 25\/10\/25.<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be provided to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers-uk.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.crimestoppers-uk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Derry security alert ends after discovery of \u201cviable\u201d explosive device was last modified:  October 26th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say that a security alert that took place overnight in the Waterside area of Derry City has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5608,"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-146574","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\/115441812434450756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146574","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=146574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}