Irish police discover explosive device near where world leaders dined earlier

Irish army bomb experts made a crude but viable explosive device safe at an office building in central Dublin on Friday, close to where world leaders dined

a day earlier during a two-day summit in the Irish capital.



Irish police said they responded to a report of a suspicious device on Friday afternoon in the building on Merrion Square. Leaders from the European Political Community that includes EU and non-EU countries had met for dinner at a venue on another side of the square on Thursday.



"Based on initial Garda (police) assessment the defence forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team were requested to attend the scene. The EOD team has made what is a crude but viable device safe," police said in a statement.



An investigation is under way, the statement added. It did not say when police believe the bomb was planted or give other details about it.