SDLP staff member targeted with hoax bomb

A member of MP John Hume's staff has been at the centre of a security alert.

A member of MP John Hume's staff has been at the centre of a security alert.

The woman found a suspicious object underneath her car after driving to work at the former SDLP leader's constituency office in Derry.

British army bomb experts examined the vehicle at a carpark in the Strand Road area and later declared the object a hoax.

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