'Bomb' found at Penrith electrical substation (Sydney, New South Wales)

Daily Telegraph (Sydney) ^ | 8th December 2016 | Yoni Bashan

[naturalman1975]

THE Bomb Squad and Hazmat were deployed to an electricity substation in Penrith following the discovery of a device with what looked like a detonator attached to it this morning.

Workers at the Kingswood electricity substation on Smith Street found what’s understood to be a petrol bomb with a detonator shortly before 9am.

THE Bomb Squad and Hazmat were deployed to an electricity substation in Penrith following the discovery of a device with what looked like a detonator attached to it this morning.

Workers at the Kingswood electricity substation on Smith Street found what’s understood to be a petrol bomb with a detonator shortly before 9am.

“If it [the device] goes up it’ll take Penrith Hospital and the private hospital,” an official told The Daily Telegraph.

[naturalman1975]

Penrith is a satellite city on the western side of Sydney. The nearby Nepean Hospital is one of the largest in Sydney - second largest I think from memory. Obviously it would have power backup systems, but it is something terrorists would definitely regard as worth tying to disrupt.

[vladimir998]

Was there anyone named Muhammad nearby?

[missnry]

There is also a very large Defence Establishment Orchard Hills on the outskirts of Penrith on the Northern Road... hmmmm.