WINNIPEG — Police taped off part of a Winnipeg neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon after a suspicious discovery in a Crescentwood yard.
A construction company was working on the home near Dudley Avenue and Guelph Street when a worker uncovered what appeared to resemble a military explosive.
The contractor says he was working with a skid steer in the back yard when he drove over it.
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“It just looked like something really old,” said Peter Schilling, who found the smoke bomb. “It wasn’t set off by us driving over it with the skid-steer. It wasn’t set off by digging it up so just thought it was something that had been there for a long time.”
Military members quickly joined police on scene before removing the object from the area.
“The military described it as a smoke bomb, for practice I guess,” said Wes Friesen, who called 911 after seeing the cylindrical device.
Some houses in the area were evacuated as a precaution.
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