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Published: 2010-03-15 18:46:40
Updated: 2010-03-15 18:46:40

Posted: March 15, 2010

Durham police blow up suspicious suitcase

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Durham, N.C. — A Durham County bomb squad on Monday detonated a suitcase that was left in a park near Northgate Mall.

A resident saw a man leave the suitcase behind a park bench at the corner of Sovereign and Albany streets at about 2:30 p.m. Members of the Durham Police Department's Biological-Chemical Emergency Response Team and the Durham County Sheriff's Office bomb squad responded to the scene and asked nearby residents to leave their homes.

The bomb squad tried to X-ray the suitcase twice, but experts couldn't determine from the images whether any explosives or hazardous materials were inside. So they blew up the suitcase.

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cool WRAL... so it was full of WHAT ?
Click to view my profile chargernut69
March 16, 2010 12:26 p.m.
No folks let's just call it what it usually is on WRAL: poor journalism and reporters who either can't or won't fill in the details of a story.
ghimmy51
March 16, 2010 11:53 a.m.
and they found.....?
Click to view my profile Caveman93
March 16, 2010 11:17 a.m.
hgz48 made the comment I wanted to make. If you don't know what is in it, you don't blow it up. Well, this article is so short, perhaps they blew it up inside some sort of containment. We're all still alive so I guess it was okay.
Click to view my profile thefensk
March 16, 2010 10:39 a.m.
I think RKBA was just pointing out that a sentence is not supposed to start with a conjunction (and/but/or/nor/yet/so/for).
Local_NC_Native
March 16, 2010 9:57 a.m.
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