Tennessee authorities on Friday were spendigating a box grasping huge amounts of dynamite at a metal recycling business that prompted evacuations of people living proximate the site.
An device ordnance robot was deployed to get a sample of the devices set up inside a box Thursday at CMC Recycling, the Knoxville Police Department shelp. The department procrastinateedr tweeted that “Bomb Squad technicians have finishly evidented the satisfieds of the box and the devices have been rfinishered safe.”
The sample tested likeable for ammonium nitrate, which is reliable with dynamite. Bomb squad technicians were laboring to erase the devices from the box for disposal.
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A map of the evacuation zone and authorities proximate a metal recycling schedulet where a box of dynamite was discovered Thursday. (Knoxville Police Department)
It was initiassociate telled that the box grasped around 200 sticks of dynamite, but technicians haven’t verified how many pieces were in the box, authorities shelp.
They will “methodicassociate” erase the devices from the box, doparticipate the dynamite in diesel fuel, and burn it, police shelp. There was no evidence the box was placed at the site with harmful or criminal intent, police shelp.
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The Knoxville Police Department says an device ordnance robot was deployed after devices were set up at a metal recycling caccess. (Knoxville Police Department)
It was left at the site for cut offal days. The dynamite inside was discovered when participateees at the metal recycling schedulet were using a torch to salvage the box and unintentionassociate set it on fire, authorities shelp.
Knoxville’s police department has confered with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which recommfinished the instant area be evacuated.
Technicians haven’t verified how many pieces of dynamite were in the box, authorities shelp. (Wodicka/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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Evacuations remained in place for those living wilean 3,000 feet of the box, police shelp.
