Suspicious Canister Seized Near Kennedy Office Not a Bomb
Bomb squad officers today removed a suspicious-looking canister from a Department of Health and Human Services office down the hall from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s and later determined it was not a bomb.
Police destroyed the device at Moon Island in Boston Harbor with a high-pressure water cannon, police spokesman Jim Jordan said.
Kennedy was in Washington and not at the downtown Boston federal building at the time, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Democrat said.
The FBI, HHS employees and Kennedy’s staff said the device, a metal canister in a paper bag, was found several offices and about 15 yards away from Kennedy’s office on the 24th floor of the John F. Kennedy federal building.
An HHS employee said she and fellow workers discovered the bag on a coatrack shortly before 7:30 a.m. The woman said she called federal police in the building and was told to evacuate the office.
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