Israel Embassy in Ireland Evacuated

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Embassy In Ireland Evacuated

12:25pm UK, Tuesday 21 August 2012

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The Israeli embassy in Dublin is being evacuated after a suspicious device was found on the premises.

The army's bomb-disposal team was at the scene to investigate, according to the police.

"A suspicious device was found and we were contacted. The building is being evacuated," a police spokesman said.

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The Israeli embassy in Dublin was evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious device was found, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

The army's bomb-disposal team had been sent to the scene to investigate the security alert.

Irish police said the eight-storey building, which is mostly empty apart from the embassy, was partly evacuated while the bomb-disposal team investigated the device for around an hour.

A police officer at the scene, off Dublin's Pembroke Road, told Reuters that it was a false alarm after the team left the building.

Israel's Foreign Ministry said work in the embassy had returned to normal.

"A package attracted the attention of the staff and it was inspected but turned out that it was nothing out of the ordinary," a spokeswoman in Jerusalem said