LETTER BOMB FOUND AT SORTING OFFICE

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A suspicious package found at a sorting office in Northern Ireland was a viable letter bomb, police said.

A spokeswoman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said: "Police are currently attending a security alert following the discovery of a suspicious package at the postal sorting office in Mallusk Road, Newtownabbey."

Army Technical Officers were tasked to the scene.

The police spokeswoman said it was declared "a viable letter bomb type device".

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