Foyleside alert over

The alert at Foyleside Shopping Centre is understood to be over.

The shopping centre was evacuated this evening for around 10 minutes.

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Foyleside Shopping Centre.

One Derry woman who was in Foyleside with her family said:

“We heard the alarm go, then we heard over the tannoy ‘please evacuate the building’.

“Everyone started to leave, nobody was taking their time. Some people were panicked because of Manchester.”

The cause of the brief alert is not known.

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