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| 1 killed in Canada coffee house explosion | |
| 2006-04-02 | |
| One person was killed when a device exploded in a downtown Toronto coffee shop on Sunday, and police said they had no clues on who the victim was or what exactly caused the blast. Staff Sergeant Don Cole said the blast took place just after 1 p.m. EDT in the washroom of a Tim Hortons shop, a coffee and doughnut chain that was recently spun off from parent company Wendy's International Inc. One man was killed. "It appears there was a device, but we don't know whether the person brought it in with him, or it he was an innocent party, or if he was a suicide, we just don't know," he said. "It's not something that just blew up by itself, it was some device." Cole said he had no information about the man who died. Fire department spokesman Daryl Fuglerud told media at the scene that the man who died had burns to his body, although the explosion had not caused much smoke.
Police Insp. Nick Memme confirmed that an explosion occurred in the washroom at the rear of the restaurant | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #11 Curiouser and curiouser. More from lotp's second link: A Tim Hortons spokesman confirmed the dead man was not an employee, but his identity was not immediately known. Later Sunday, a second of the coffee franchise's outlets in Toronto was locked down after a suspicious package was identified there. Few details were immediately available, but police confirmed an emergency task force unit had been dispatched to the second location - just a few subway stations north of the first - and the area had been evacuated. A second loud bang was heard in the area several hours after the first, but police would not immediately confirm whether it was the intentional detonation of remaining explosives on the scene, or an unrelated blast. Officers in white hazardous-materials suits were also seen entering and leaving the store, it was not clear whether a potentially dangerous substance had been identified. From another article (Reuters) Police closed off a busy block close to one of Toronto's main shopping districts as they investigated the cause of the explosion and used a remote controlled device to trigger a second device after finding a suspicious package. "It was just garbage," Cole said. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-04-02 22:49 |
| #10 If this was Al Queda, it could be a turning point in the GWoT. Blowing up Timmies is not going to go down well up there. |
| Posted by: JAB 2006-04-02 22:25 |
| #9 LGF sez is was some amateur with a gas can... probable motive was arson or suicide. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2006-04-02 21:44 |
| #8 Damn. Tim's went IPO a week ago. Should've shorted it. |
| Posted by: Agent Bauer 2006-04-02 21:26 |
| #7 This is weird. Arrests in Newmarket, of all places, and a Tim's explodes soon after. |
| Posted by: Gliting Closing8568 2006-04-02 21:21 |
| #6 Gee, Colt, if anything, you should be upset that this made Rantburg Page 1, WOT Operations. I was sort of wondering why until I hit the Amin Islam part. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-04-02 20:37 |
| #5 Definitely not .45 |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-02 20:15 |
| #4 Colt - no off-the-cuff thoughts? Wait for the forensic release of facts in a prelim hearing? Jeebus - this isn't CSI |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-02 19:50 |
| #3 Darrell, Hmmm what? They're still cleaning bits of person out of the bathroom, and already people are alluding to the Muslim manager being involved in a bombing of his own place of work, while he was there. |
| Posted by: Colt 2006-04-02 19:04 |
| #2 "...district manager Amin Islam..." Hmmmm. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-04-02 18:53 |
| #1 Haven't heard of many boomers in YYZ before. Afganistan blow back or key AQ grab quickly come to mind. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-04-02 18:45 |