Men bailed after east Belfast security alert

Two men who were arrested after a security alert in east Belfast has been released on bail.

The pair were arrested after a suspicious device was located in the Victor Street area on Wednesday.

Police received reports of two masked men with firearms and officers search a residential property, where a number of suspected imitation firearms and a suspicious device were discovered.

A man in his 40s was arrested at the scene on suspicion of possession of a firearm under suspicious circumstances and a second man in his 20s was arrested later on suspicion of the same offence.

The suspicious item was deemed to be inviable.

The man is his 20s was released on bail on 23 April and the man his forties was released on bail later that day.