Thousands of commuters rode buses instead of the TTC subway Saturday after police closed the Finch station to investigate a suspicious package. In the end, emergency task force officers determined a package they were sent to examine around 3:44 a.m. inside the station was not a bomb.
Details about its construction, where it was located and its disposition were not released. Service on the subway resumed around 1:30 p.m., police said.
TTC spokesman Marilyn Bolton said investigators did not provide details of the device, “but they did talk about some possible explosive device.”
She said shuttle buses were put into service from Finch to the Sheppard station. “We didn’t open that piece of subway,” Bolton said. Although no estimate of Saturday's ridership on the buses was available, she said “it’s a good thing it wasn’t a regular weekday, when we have so much more demand.”
Thanks for the ping Oorang.
I’ve been at work, and hadn’t heard.
I wonder what it was?
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia - Gunmen killed a Russian imam on his way to morning prayers in a restive southern region Saturday, a day after he spoke out against Islamic extremists, police said. Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov was shot by attackers in a car while walking from his home to his mosque in the Dagestani settlement of Gudben, they said.
Dagestan, a mostly Muslim region east of Chechnya that is home to many ethnic groups, has been plagued by shootings, bombings and other violence, including regular attacks on top officials and police. Some of the violence has been linked to Islamic extremists and some was rooted in disputes between local criminal clans.
Gadzhimagomedov was a vocal critic of Islamic extremism who had spoken out against militants during a service at the mosque Friday, police said. They said the killing was "clearly a revenge attack" by Islamic militants. In July, a deputy chief mufti at the central mosque in the provincial capital, Makhachkala, was killed, along with his driver, by a roadside bomb blast.
http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=world&articleID=2763786
Pakistan on high alert
September 29, 2007
Security has been beefed up in Pakistan after intelligence agencies feared attacks by suicide bombers on sensitive installations and religious places in the country.
Security officials said they received information that terrorists were planning to attack religious places, police installations and security personnel. Security forces have been directed not to gather in groups, especially when in uniform.
Heavy police contingents have been deployed at worship places, foreign installations, important buildings and police stations and at the Capital City Police Office (CCPO) and Central Police Office (CPO), a newspaper reported. Security personnel in plain clothes have also been deployed at airports, railway stations, bus stands and shopping centres.
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http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/sep/29alert.htm