Politics & Government
Discovery Of Explosive Devices Lead To Schools Being Placed On Locked Out
Police think the "devices" might have been a student experimenting.
The discovery of five plastic bottles with a corrosive liquid led to two Hillsboro schools being placed on lockout briefly Tuesday morning. For a couple of hours, no one was allowed to enter R.A. Brown Middle School and Ladd Acres Elementary School.
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A parks employee had found one of the bottles at Reedville Creek Park and it's top blew off when the picked up. The worker was not injured.
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All of the bottles - which were found at different locations in the park - had aluminum foil and some sort of liquid.
The Metro area bomb squad helped dispose of the bottles. Police did not consider the public to be in any danger.
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Police think that a student or students may have been responsible. The investigation continues.
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