Bomb incident in Canterbury. We've been evacuated

reply to post by infinite


Blimey Infinite-What the heck is going on?
Its not an exercise of some type is it?

It sounds chaotic,hope you folks in Canterbury are all safe.

Absolutely mental! Stay safe but keep us updated if/when you can please

Hey you be careful in downtown canterbury, Its well dodgy at the best of times. You might get offered some pot by public school boys or witness them doing 40m.p.h in a 30. Stay safe Family.

What's the local news saying? Any idea who is behind this?

Finally getting headline coverage on BBC
Rainbows
Jane

PS...make that Sky news. Fire started in M&S baby changing room and is linked. Railway line, rucksack with wires attached to mobile phone then attached to cylindrical object. Carrying out controlled detonation

Originally posted by infinite
Another picture from the scene

www.civicboom.com...

Police have now evacuated houses up to 100m from the suspected bomb in the Old Dover Road in Canterbury. More sirens have raced pass my house.

The lot of em in that pic seem to be having a jolly good time! That's good at least! Except the big guy in the blue shirt.

wheres Canterbury?

reply to post by ignant


A town in Kent, England.

BBC report:

www.bbc.co.uk...

Any idea on who or whom may be behind
this. I hope there are no further disturbances.
Stay safe and I am thinking of you!

BBC News latest

Army bomb disposal experts were called to what was believed to be an explosive device in Old Dover Road, Canterbury.

But at midnight Kent police confirmed it was a false alarm.

Hopefully the other suspicious package is also a false alarm.

Be interesting to see how this pans out. Who is to blame etc.

Just watching twitter on this one. Turns out the bomb on the train line was an 'elaborate hoax' but there is an 'ongoing situation' at the cricket ground which was evacuated.

Its nice to hear that noone's been injured, makes a change.

The BBC are reporting it as a hoax. Anyone can stick a box in a bin and ring the police.

Mountains. Molehills.

www.bbc.co.uk...

Regards

Only video I could find on youtube.




Here's another.

Originally posted by paraphi
The BBC are reporting it as a hoax. Anyone can stick a box in a bin and ring the police.

Mountains. Molehills.

www.bbc.co.uk...

Regards

I sure don't believe anything coming from the Murdoch dynasty..

I was at work when it happened had to go home...I was so upset I wasn't aloud to stay and close the shop.

Just about to go back ill post the 411 later.

Just got back. Was evacuated last night.

The fire in Marks and Spencer was, according to the police, caused by a device. As for the railway lines, police said it was quite similar to those hoaxes in Northern Ireland - sophisticated device, but not designed to go off.

Originally posted by Daedal

Originally posted by paraphi
The BBC are reporting it as a hoax. Anyone can stick a box in a bin and ring the police.

Mountains. Molehills.

www.bbc.co.uk...

Regards

I sure don't believe anything coming from the Murdoch dynasty..

Er, what? The BBC and the Murdoch crowd are so far apart they might as well be on different planets. Murdoch hates the Beeb! If I misunderstood, I am sorry, but it seems to me your claiming the BBC is controlled by Murdoch?

It's a fake bomb alert, happens quite often. I remember having to evacuate my house in Germany at 4am once because someone found a thermos flask in the street.. Had to wait for Army Bomb Disposal to blow it up before they realised it was just a flask.

Police say it is too early to say if group or individual are responsible for #canterbury hoax. They had several calls re suspicious devices

Police have confirmed a suspicious device was found at m&s #canterbury last night in baby changing area. They say it was fake.

Originally posted by Daedal
I sure don't believe anything coming from the Murdoch dynasty..

Lost me there. The BBC is not Murdoch.

Regardless. It was all a hoax. It happens more often than most people may think.

Regards