{"id":405134,"date":"2025-09-07T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405134\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:41:12","slug":"bentham-drive-viable-devices-found-during-security-alert-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405134\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentham Drive: Viable devices found during security alert in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0\"The<\/p>\n

The incident is in the Bentham Drive area (Photo: Google)<\/p>\n

A number of viable devices have been found during a security alert in south Belfast.<\/p>\n

Several properties in the Bentham Drive area were evacuated on Saturday as police carried out searches.<\/p>\n

A property was cordoned off and Ammunition Technical Officers attended the scene and examined several objects, which were deemed viable and removed for further examination.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, police said the security alert had ended and a man has been arrested on suspicion of making and possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances. He is currently in police custody.<\/p>\n

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The incident is in the Bentham Drive area (Photo: Google)<\/p>\n

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Detective Inspector Alexander said: “Residents who were evacuated from their homes have been allowed to return, and we are grateful for their cooperation and patience while we made the area safe.”<\/p>\n

Anyone with any information regarding the incident has been urged to contact police on 101, or Crimestoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 The incident is in the Bentham Drive area (Photo: Google) A number of viable devices have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1249,1144,17793,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-kurtis-reid","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-south-belfast-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115162833665314600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}