People who left pipe bombs behind a block of flats in Portadown were last night condemned by a senior Northern Ireland police officer.
Chief Supt Irvin Turbit, the District Commander for Craigavon, said it was miraculous that the primary schoolchildren who found the devices while playing in the Westland Road area were not killed or maimed.
Army bomb disposal experts managed to take the devices away for further examination.
Mr Turbit said those responsible for keeping the pipe bombs there "had no respect for human life".
He said: "It is most fortunate that no one had to be hospitalised with the horrific injuries that pipe bombs can inflict".
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