A small bomb found on a Co Antrim roadside was made safe by a British army bomb disposal team last night.
Police said the “viable” home-made device had been found on the Drones Road outside Armoy yesterday morning and was defused after an operation which ran for several hours.
It was the only viable device found after a number of security alerts, including one on the Ormeau Bridge in south Belfast, during the day.
A high-level security operation continued throughout the day against any dissident republican effort to mark the arrival of the new PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott.
Two men were arrested in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, following a series of police searches in connection with suspected dissident republican activity, while over recent days there was a noticeable increase in police traffic checks and searches in many parts of the North.
