More than a week after a Toronto university campus was evacuated because of a hoax bomb so convincing it was detonated by police, investigators say their work to identify a suspect and motive continues.
On Aug. 6, Toronto police rushed to the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus in the afternoon because a suspicious package had been found. The campus was evacuated as bomb disposal experts, paramedics, firefighters and other specialists attended.
Bomb experts inspected the suspicious package with a remote robot, photographed and X-rayed it. The result of that close inspection made them fear it was a real bomb; it was remotely detonated “when safe to do so” more than two hours after the device was discovered.
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Speaking on the day of the bomb scare, Toronto Police Duty Insp. Dan Pravica said the device, found inside …