SkyTrain bomb was crude but ‘extremely dangerous,’ could have done serious damage to a train: Police

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BY SAM COOPER, THE PROVINCE NOVEMBER 3, 2012 12:18 PM
SkyTrain bomb was crude but ‘extremely dangerous,’ could have done serious damage to a train: Police

The bomb squad was called in and commuters on the eastbound SkyTrain were shuttled to buses after a transit emergency alert closed the Scott Road to Gateway Skytrain stations in Surrey on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.

Photograph by: Les Bazso , PNG

The crude explosive device left on SkyTrain tracks in Surrey by a would-be bomber was powerful enough to seriously damage a train, police said Saturday.

Police forces across the Lower Mainland went on high alert Friday evening as Transit Police hunted the would-be bomber, and swept TransLink’s whole rail system to ensure no more bombs threatened passengers. Three false alarms were triggered throughout the system as staff raised alerts about objects which are not believed to be connected to the real bomb or copycat pranksters.

“There is no doubt that this was a serious device, although somewhat unsophisticated in nature, and was extremely dangerous,” Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan said Saturday.

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One Reply to “SkyTrain bomb was crude but ‘extremely dangerous,’ could have done serious damage to a train: Police”

  1. The bomber apparently doesn’t know much about explosives, but unfortunately he knows that he doesn’t know so he is keeping his bombs simple. The thing that has saved us in previous bombings is that the bombers have tried to make their bombs too sophisticated, they have made them so complicated that they won’t explode.