Item resembling a pipe bomb found at northern Manitoba high school dorm
A device that looked like a pipe bomb was found Monday in a Cranberry Portage high school dorm room as staff prepared for the return of students to the evacuated community, RCMP say.
On Monday morning around 9:20 a.m., Cranberry Portage RCMP received a report of a suspicious device found within a dorm room at the high school in the northern Manitoba community, which is about 40 kilometres southeast of Flin Flon, RCMP said in a news release.
Staff members were preparing for the return of students, after the community was evacuated May 31 due to wildfires in the region, when they made the discovery.
The device was described as a metal pipe with tape that resembled a pipe bomb, RCMP said.
The RCMP explosives disposal unit examined the device and it was taken to a remote location and safely destroyed, police said.
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