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
THANK YOU freeperfromnj for that update.
I appreciate it.
of course they are