Children find unexploded bomb
A group of children picked up an unexploded pipe bomb just minutes after another device blew up outside a nearby police station in Northern Ireland.
Bomb attack on Belfast police station
Two bombs have been thrown at a police station in Northern Ireland.
One device exploded outside Woodbourne PSNI station in west Belfast just after 10.30pm last night. The other failed to detonate and the area was cordoned off.
Army bomb experts were called to the scene, which remains sealed off this morning.
A police spokesman said there were no reports of any injuries or damage.
Democratic Unionist councillor Brian Kingston claimed eyewitnesses reported that a group of primary school age children had hold of one of the bombs, but escaped unharmed.
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