Bomb alert disrupts Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Omagh

A Remembrance Sunday ceremony close to the site in Omagh of the largest single atrocity of the Troubles in Northern Ireland has been disrupted by a bomb scare.The Police Service of Northern Ireland cleared the area around Drumragh Avenue, Mountjoy Road, Sedan Avenue, George Street and High Street.The PSNI said the alert was a “sickening attempt” to disrupt the Remembrance Day wreath-laying ceremony in the Co Tyrone town.