Police in Kensington, P.E.I., shut down municipal building over 'potentially hazardous object'
CBC
The municipal building in the central P.E.I. town of Kensington was shut as a precaution on Monday night after someone brought a "potentially hazardous object" to the police force headquartered there.
The episode meant the town's planned council meeting had to be postponed for a day because of what a social media post called "unforeseen circumstances," with residents urged to avoid the area.
"Kensington Police Service is currently managing a potentially hazardous item located inside the municipal building," at the corner of Victoria Avenue East and Woodleigh Drive, the force said on social media around 7 p.m. AT.
The same post said officers blocked access to Woodleigh Drive, including a Tim Hortons drive-through, while they dealt with the situation.
The council meeting for the town of 1,800 people will now be held Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
Police Chief Landon Yuill later told CBC News that a local resident had brought in an old mortar, believed to be from the Second World War.
He stressed that there was no risk to the public, but police shut down the area as a precaution because the mortar could have been a piece of live munition.
Yuill said Kensington officials were talking to representatives of the federal Department of National Defence based in Gagetown, N.B., to figure out how to handle the object.
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