British army technical officers have defused a pipe-bomb found in the garden of a house in the Westland Gardens area of north Belfast. The device was found by a 17-year-old youth who lives in the house, believed to belong to a Catholic family.
A local Sinn Fein councillor, Mr Danny Lavery, blamed the Ulster Defence Association for the attack. He also alleged that the RUC had been made aware of the device on Monday but had failed to discover anything in a follow-up search.
