A Garda investigation is underway after a member of the public handed in a live pipe bomb to gardai in Cork.

The Garda station in Cork city was evacuated earlier today while an army bomb disposal team made the pipe bomb safe.

It had been handed into the station by a man who found it after it was thrown into a the back garden of house in house in the Togher area of the city

It is believed the man placed the device in a pram and wheeled it to his local Garda station.

The man who discovered the pipe bomb at his home is not believed by gardaí to have been the intended target of the device.

Gardaí at Togher Garda Station alerted an army bomb disposal team, who are currently dealing with the device.