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Police detonate pipe bomb in northeast Springs
Comments 0 | Recommend 0October 06, 2008 8:10 PM
THE GAZETTE
A pipe bomb found in a northeast Colorado Springs neighborhood Monday afternoon has been detonated by a police bomb squad.
The 4-inch bomb was found around 12:45 p.m. near a parked car on Surrey Lane near Meadowland Drive east of Academy Boulevard, said Lt. Sal Fiorello.
The neighbor who found the bomb alerted a firefighter who lives in the neighborhood, who called police.
A robot brought the bomb to the middle of the road and stacked sandbags on top of it before it was detonated around 4 p.m.
Russell Middle School and Helen Keller Elementary School were temporarily on lock-down while police dealt with the bomb.
Police are investigating the bomb's origin.
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