Suspect device sent to SDLP councillor's house

Army bomb experts have made safe a suspect device at the house of an SDLP councillor in Warrenpoint, Co Down.

Army bomb experts have made safe a suspect device at the house of an SDLP councillor in Warrenpoint, Co Down.

Mr Michael Carr, a member of the district policing partnership in Co Down, became suspicious when he found a suspect package in his morning mail yesterday.

A PSNI spokesman said the contents of the package were "a crude but viable device".

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