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Manchester: fake bomb in the stadium forget
After the discovery of a suspicious package, the Premier League has been cancelled match between Manchester United and Bournemouth. The spectators were briefly evacuated before the start of the game. The backgrounds are explosive.
According to media reports, 20 minutes at the time of evacuation before the kick-off of about 60,000 people in the stadium Old Trafford in Manchester. After spectators and players had been brought in safety, bomb specialists, a controlled detonation of the suspicious package, the police announced. It was a “deceptively real” – looking IED mock-up, it was the later.
Embarrassing glitch leads to game cancellation
The child was not placed by criminals or terrorists, as soon turned out, but by a private security company. The had forgotten the training object after a training Exercise with explosives search dogs accidentally in the stadium. According to the British newspaper “The Guardian” stock of the mock-up from a mobile phone that was connected to a gas pipe.
Empty ranks at Old Trafford after the evacuation of the spectators
The decision for the game cancellation was not easy, informed the Premier League. However, the safety of Fans and players. The cancelled game from the last game day will now be on Tuesday evening to be rescheduled. Sporty there is practically nothing more, as Manchester City 1:1 Swansea City made the last hopes of city rivals United to the starting place in the Champions League qualification lost. On points the Team of national player Bastian Schweinsteiger could pull with City equal, the goal difference is 18 goals worse.
Fear of terrorist attack
The evacuation in Manchester awakens bad memories: In November, the Islamist bombers had detonated during the match France against Germany in the immediate vicinity of the Stade de France in the Paris district of Saint Denis bombs. A few days later the friendly match Germany against the Netherlands in Hanover was for fear of an attack shortly before the start of the game to be cancelled.
ww/fab (dpa, rtr, sid)