UPDATE...
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/02/toronto-explosion-060402.html
"Blast at Toronto doughnut shop kills man"
Last Updated Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:44:08 EDT
CBC News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A man died in an explosion at a Tim Hortons outlet in downtown Toronto on Sunday, police say.
Later in the afternoon, a police robot was used to remove a parcel from the store, which is on Yonge Street just north of the intersection with Bloor Street. Explosives experts then detonated the package.
The initial blast took place just after 1 p.m. EDT.
Emergency officials walk outside a Tim Hortons on Yonge Street in Toronto on Sunday.
Police said the victim was not a Tim Hortons employee."
ON THE NET...
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April 01, 2006
Bagged one in Toronto
Alleged terrorist nabbed in GTA:
An alleged terrorist -- with links to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden -- has been arrested in the GTA while trying to flee the country, Sun Media immigration sources say.
In one of the most significant terrorism arrests in Canada since 9/11, a man believed to be a captain of the Pakistani extremist organization Mujahedin-E-Lashkar-E-Tayyba, or LET, which is funded by Osama bin Laden and has direct ties to al-Qaida, was arrested March 16 by Canadian border service officers in Newmarket.
Intelligence sources say members of LET have been trained in Afghan terrorist camps.
Ontario immigration sources say 40-year-old Raja Ghulam Mustafa, a Pakistani national who went by the last name Murtaza, was arrested outside his home with a packed suitcase and a significant amount of cash on him.
TIPPED OFF?
After the arrest by the Canadian border service's Greater Toronto Enforcement Centre officers, Mustafa's residence was searched and a briefcase containing fraudulent documents and a laptop were seized, officials said.
It's believed Mustafa may have been tipped off that GTEC officers were investigating him, so he made plans to flee Canada to the U.S.
Officials told Sun Media Mustafa was "surprised" that he had been found by law enforcement.
Sources say Mustafa had already given his landlady notice that he would be leaving.
Posted on 01 April 2006 @ 04:03 GMT
UPDATE...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060402/tim_hortons_060402/20060402?hub=TopStories
"One dead after explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons"
Updated Sun. Apr. 2 2006 5:39 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Early news reports said a man was seen going into the washroom with explosives strapped to his chest. Police would not confirm the reports.
Employees and witnesses were questioned by police about what they had seen."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The police bomb squad worked at the scene for much of the afternoon. They used a remote controlled bomb disposal robot to investigate an object found nearby.
Yonge Street was shut down in both directions between Yorkville and Bloor, reportedly tying up traffic around one of the city's busiest intersections.
There is no word yet on what caused the blast. Once police declare the scene to be safe the fire marshal's office will begin an investigation.
Later Sunday, another Tim Hortons outlet in Toronto was locked down after a suspicious package was found inside the restaurant, just a few subway stations north of where the explosion occurred.
Few details were immediately available, but police confirmed an emergency task force unit had been dispatched to the second location and the area had been evacuated.
With files from The Canadian Press"
Now they're saying it was a fire, not a bombing......
One person dead in Toronto shop explosion
4/2/2006, 6:59 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
TORONTO (AP) — An apparent explosion at a popular coffee shop killed one man Sunday and brought this city's downtown shopping district to a standstill.
The explosion occurred at a Tim Hortons coffee shop, and police said another store in the chain was locked down later in the day when a suspicious package was found there, police said.
Toronto police Chief Bill Blair described the incident as a fire in the washroom — not a bombing — and said police were not looking for any suspects. He refused to speculate on a cause "until we determine precisely what happened in that cubicle and what caused those flames that took that man's life."
Daryl Fuglerud, a fire department spokesman, said workers tried unsuccessfully to revive the man, who had burns to his body and had not been identified.
The body remained inside the coffee shop hours after the blast, while authorities cordoned off a block of Yonge Street and evacuated the area. The intersection of Yonge and Bloor Street is one of the busiest shopping districts in the city.
Police said an emergency task force unit dispatched to a second Time Hortons coffee shop after a suspicious package was found, but could not confirm whether a second explosion heard in the area several hours after the first was an intentional detonation or an unrelated blast.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-1/1144019362220600.xml&storylist=international