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Bomb experts carry out controlled explosion at Denver killers’ apartment

In the US, Bomb squad experts have carried out a controlled explosion at the home of a man suspe...
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18.46 21 Jul 2012


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Bomb experts carry out controlled explosion at Denver killers’ apartment

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18.46 21 Jul 2012


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/> In the US, Bomb squad experts have carried out a controlled explosion at the home of a man suspected of killing twelve people at a cinema in Denver.

The apartment of 24 year old medical graduate, James Holmes is  booby-trapped with trip wires and chemicals.

No major damage was caused by the controlled explosion – but the area remains sealed off.

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James Holmes  remains in police custody – after he opened fire at a midnight screening of the latest Batman film – killing 12 people and injuring 58.
/> Police say  the suspect had recently bought four guns and 6-thousand rounds of ammunition.

Officer Cassidee Carlson from the Aurora Police Department says the bomb disposal experts need to be very careful not to destroy any evidence in his apartment.

“One of the things we must consider is this investigation. We don’t want to lose anything which could be used as evidence and therefore we are very causious of how we deal with things – how we take things out – so that we don’t jeopardise the investigation. ”

Meanwhile,  a 6 year-old girl is thought to be the youngest to die in a shooting at a cinema in Colorado, and her mother’s fighting for her life.

Veronica Moser was killed, along with 11 others, when a gunman opened into fire into the audience at a screening of the latest batman film.

Her mother Ashley remains critically ill in hospital.


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