Toronto Canada – Letter Bomb Mystery Deepens – Suspect Arrested

Adel Mohamed Arnaout, suspected of sending three of the letter bombs under arrest.<br>

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A gutted red bungalow known by neighbours as the “Bombay Bunker” was the focus of an intensive police search overnight by bomb squad investigators probing a string of attempted letter bombings here and in Guelph.

Police, who have one man under arrest, are investigating the manufacture of at least six explosive devices – three sent to unwitting recipients here and in Guelph during the past several weeks, and three found in the trunk of a rental car stopped Thursday night at an Esso station at Overlea Blvd. and Thorncliffe Park Dr. in Don Mills.

“We don’t have a motive at this point,” Toronto police Const. Wendy Drummond said. “We do know that the three victims – the two in Toronto and the one in Guelph – were not chosen at random.”

The discovery of the bombs in the car led to a day of high drama in a city unused to bomb threats. Officers, unable to safely disassemble the devices, decided to explode them on the remote Leslie St. Spit, and shut down the Don Valley Parkway’s southbound lanes around noon for the convoy transporting the explosives.

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