Homemade explosives go off at Puyallup school

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUYALLUP, Wash. — No one was injured when two explosives went off at Ballou Junior High in Puyallup (pew-AL’-up).

School District spokeswoman Karen Hansen says the blasts about 10 a.m. occurred in a commons area and a boys’ bathroom.

The Tacoma News Tribune reports students were evacuated while Pierce County sheriff’s deputies searched the building. Then, students were allowed to return.

KIRO-TV reports that one device was a bottle filled with dry ice that was thrown into a toilet.

(with information from Tacoma News Tribune, KIRO-TV)

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