A suspected device has been made safe following a security alert in East Belfast.
It was found during the search of a property in the Dee Street area, examined by army technical officers before being made safe and removed for further forensic examination.
A number of other items, including a quantity of suspected class B drugs, were also recovered during the search by officers from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force investigating the activities of the West Belfast UDA.
Read more: RECAP as discovery of suspicious object at Dee Street leads to two arrests
A man aged 31 and a woman aged 33 were arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Two further linked searches took place at properties in South Belfast and East Belfast, where a number of other items including a small quantity of class B drugs and electronics, were seized.
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