800 Pupils Evacuated After Discovery of Bomb
About 800 children were evacuated Friday from the Del Sur Elementary School in Lancaster after discovery of a potentially lethal time bomb, made by a 10-year-old boy who said he learned how from a TV secret agent show, the sheriff’s bomb squad said.
The boy was unable, however, to determine when the bomb was timed to explode, which turned out to be minutes after they confiscated it, deputies said.
A boy wearing a Bart Simpson T-shirt was taken into custody after admitting he built the bomb from model rocket engines and a digital alarm clock. He said he used information from an episode of the “MacGyver” TV show. The show’s producer said there was no such episode.
The bomb was discovered by third-graders in the boys’ restroom shortly after 10 a.m. and exploded by the bomb squad on the school playground at 11:05, just six minutes before it would have gone off, a deputy said.
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