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Viable device found during security alert

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Police received a report shortly after 10:00 BST of a suspicious device in the Feystown Road area

A viable device was found during a security alert in Glenarm, County Antrim, on Monday.

An elderly woman and two men were arrested, but the woman has since been released.

Police received a report shortly after 10:00 BST of a suspicious device in the Feystown Road area.

Det Insp Lenaghan, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said ammunition technical officers carried out a controlled explosion.

Two men aged 43 and 47 were arrested on suspicion of doing an act with intent to cause an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property and with obstructing police.

Both remain in police custody.

A woman in her 70s was arrested on suspicion of obstructing police, she has since been released to be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.