There was a security alert in Derry city centre last night.
A police landrover sealing off Clarence Avenue during last night’s security alert.
Roads in and around police headquarters on Strand Road were sealed off.
Traffic was diverted away from Queen’s Quay, Clarence Avenue, Lawrence Hill, Strand Road and a section of the Northland Road.
The alert came 12 hours after the murder of 35-year-old Barry McCrory who was shot dead in a flat in Shipquay Street just before 11.00am yesterday morning.
Deputy FIrst Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein blamed dissident republicans for the killing.
The killing of Mr McCrory came 24 hours after the murder of a man in Belfast whose killing was claimed a group calling itself the “IRA,” the same organisation which claimed the killing of prison officer David Black who was shot dead as he drove along the M1 in November last year.
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