An organisation calling itself the Orange Volunteer Force claimed responsibility for the latest in a string of security alerts over the past four days; it came yesterday morning, Monday, in the quiet hamlet of Bush, near Dungannon.
Around 7am an anonymous caller using a codeword and claiming to represent the loyalist paramilitary organisation told police a device had been hidden in a concrete block and left at the local Orange Hall on Bush Road.
The hall - currently undergoing renovations and located in a densely populated residential area - and surrounding houses, were sealed off and evacuated while the PSNI and army bomb disposal teams combed the site but found nothing.
The incident was later declared a hoax and the area was reopened to the public around noon.
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Last Friday teatime a partially detonated incendiary device exploded at the Toymaster store on the Dungannon Road in Cookstown.
The device was concealed in a hot food take away type container and narrowly avoided causing death or serious injury when it exploded.
A supermarket on Orritor Road in the town was also searched.
And last Thursday police in Dungannon received reports of bomb at the Post Office in Market Square.



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