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Fri 04 Apr 1999Head-in-bag report turns out to be a false alarmA report last night that two men were sighted carrying a bag containing a body in west Dublin, has turned out to be a false alarm. The report had sparked off a full-scale Garda investigation.Gardai have confirmed that the incident was totally misread when two men were disturbed in the Clondalkin area melting down copper wire. The alarm, raised by two teenagers and a wild-fowler, prompted gardai to seal off a council-owned site in the Bawnogue area of Clondalkin near the Grand Canal.