Sunday, May 15, 2016

Fake bomb at Manchester delays end of Premier League season (The Associated Press)

Leicester's Jamie Vardy, right, fails to score past Chelsea's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, center, during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Leicester City at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Sunday, May 15, 2016.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

A security blunder at Manchester United prevented the Premier League completing the season on Sunday, with a fake bomb spotted inside Old Trafford only discovered to have been left from a terror exercise long after the game against Bournemouth was postponed. Police conducted a controlled explosion and later said that the ''incredibly lifelike explosive device'' had not been cleared by security contractors from a toilet inside England's second biggest soccer stadium after the security exercise. ''It is outrageous this situation arose and a full inquiry is required to urgently find out how this happened, why it happened and who will be held accountable,'' said Tony Lloyd, the police and crime commissioner in Manchester.


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