No arrests have been made in connection with a pipe bomb found this week just off a popular walking trail in North Kamloops, where some neighbours say they are feeling uneasy since the discovery.
Emergency crews were called to a stretch of beach along Schubert Drive just north of Richmond Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day after a passerby spotted something suspicious. Mounties believed it was a pipe bomb, so they called in a police bomb squad from Vancouver. The device was eventually confirmed to be a pipe bomb before it was safely disposed of.
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Source: Castanet News
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