14/04/2016

School Evacuated During Security Alert In Co Antrim

A school has been evacuated during a security alert in Co Antrim.

A suspicious object was discovered in the Cambridge Avenue area of Ballymena today, 14 April.

Police and army bomb experts are currently at the scene.

It is believed pupils from Cambridge House Grammar School have been evacuated.

This is the third alert in the past two months.

No other information has been released.

(CD/LM)

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