Sisonke Msimang had no way of knowing the item she picked up while in the crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally was what police allege was a homemade bomb designed to detonate on impact.
She also told 7.30 that police were slow to act when she approached them with the device, hidden inside a child’s sock. “It’s supposed to be this childlike object, and it’s on the ground and it doesn’t look like anything, but at the same time, obviously it had a lot of really bad stuff inside of it,” Ms Msimang told 7.30. Police allege it was a homemade fragment bomb containing a mixture of chemicals, nails, metal ball bearings and a fuse that was lit.
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Source: ABC News
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