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October 30, 2007
USA: Pipe Bomb Kit Found in 81-year-old's Retirement Home
81-year-old's pipe bomb kit forces evacuation of Yukon retirement home
YUKON, Central Oklahoma (Tulsa World - AP), October 30, 2007:
Residents of a Yukon retirement home are back home after being evacuated when police found a cache of pipe bomb materials in an 81-year-old man's apartment.
Staff members at Nina Willingham Senior Housing called police and reported finding suspicious items in the man's apartment.
About 50 residents were evacuated by police officers and firefighters to another part of the complex for more than two hours before being allowed to return to their apartments Monday evening.
Lt. Ron Mathews says officers saw materials used to make pipe bombs in the apartment and found several of the devices were capable of being rigged to explode. The man was not at home and was not arrested, but police are questioning him about why he had the materials.
By Associated Press
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