Suspected explosive removed from Halifax waterfront
Posted Mar 23, 2012 05:28:34 AM.
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Halifax Regional Police extracted a suspected explosive device from a Halifax waterfront seawall this morning, after determining it was not dangerous.
The waterfront walkway and marina near 1475 Lower Water St. was closed for most of the night as police monitored a suspicous object lodged underwater in the rocks.
Halifax Regional Police Staff Sgt. Barb Saunders says around 7:30 p.m. police received a call about a suspicious object near Bishop’s Landing. When officers arrived, the tide had already risen above the device, and officers couldn’t identify it.
“It could have been a flare, or possibly a stick of dynamite,” Saunders tells News 95.7. “But once it was removed earlier this morning it did not appear to be an explosive item of any type.”
Police say it was an explosive fastening anchor, a device used to affix detonation devices to rocks to break them apart. It was most likely left over after the stone retaining wall was built.
The device was transported to police headquarters and the waterfront has been reopened.
