Burnaby RCMP descended on the Lougheed Mall Thursday afternoon after a shopper found a grenade in the parking lot.
Officers, along with the bomb disposal unit, were called to the mall to investigate and the parking lot was off-limits for about an hour and a half.
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Police say there was a grenade inside a bag, but it was old and dismantled. The device was inert and there was never a threat to public safety.
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