Bottle bomb explodes outside WA State elementary school
Posted November 3, 2014 9:15 am.
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REDMOND, Wash. (NEWS1130) – Two Redmond elementary schools are closed today after a bottle bomb exploded in a parking area outside the schools, injuring a school bus driver.
Sgt. DB Gates of the King County Sheriff’s Office says it appears the two-litre bottle was filled with some kind of volatile substance and exploded when the bus driver walked by it.
“The staff member … was hit by something that came out of the bottle and there’s also a second adult who may have been exposed to fumes,” Gates said. “Both were sent to the hospital.”
She said neither of the two sustained serious injuries.
Kathryn Reith of the Lake Washington School District said the staff member who was hit was a school bus driver. She said the incident happened at about 7 a.m. outside Dickinson Elementary School and there were no children present at the time.
Dickinson Elementary and nearby Explorer Elementary are both closed for the day as a precaution.
Investigators with the King County sheriff’s bomb disposal unit swept the entire around the school grounds but found nothing else.
