Police in Northern Ireland deploy bomb disposal robots in Derry cemetery - following unrest on Easter Monday
Two robots, usually deployed to examine suspicious objects, were seen searching between the headstones.
Police closed the City Cemetery in Creggan, writing online: "A public safety operation is currently underway in Creggan after a suspicious device was found inside the grounds of the City Cemetery off Lone Moor Road."The operation took place a day after the republican event at the cemetery. Prior to the event at the republican plot in the cemetery, there were scenes of violence in the Creggan area of Derry when a number of missiles, including petrol bombs, were hurled by young people at a police Land Rover monitoring the pre-commemoration parade.
The illegal parade started in the Central Drive area when a number of masked men in paramilitary-style dress formed a colour party carrying the Irish flag and a host of republican flags.
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