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It's in front of the courthouse, on Duke.
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I googled and got a hit on global news that says 'fatal car explosion outside Kitchener courthouse'. Investigation underway.
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Like something out of a breaking bad episode.
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It's weird that our police force in a city of our size does not have the resources to deal with this on their own...why call in resources from another city? Do we only have a couple explosive experts here - in a city of over 600'000+ people - or does this have some link to Peel? Either way, this is quite a huge crime, up there with the guy who killed half a dozen family members a few years ago.
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I feel that an explosives expert in the WRPS would have a heck of a lot of spare time on her hands ...
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I don't think or SWAT unit was called out to the taxi cab gun incident though, so maybe this bombing just had some connection to Peel...which makes sense, since we don't exactly have a lot of home grown organized crime here in Waterloo Region. There were a few explosive experts on scene for the explosion however. Two officers went in to inspect the car after the robot was peeking around the trunk, though they didn't find anything at that time. I'm guessing the IED itself was more or less destroyed, so it'll take the forensic units to figure out the details, but I guess they got enough to suggest it was an IED. I'm gonna guess this was either out of town organized crime or maybe just someone going a bit "crazy" over something a bit more personal.
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They have announced that the deceased was responsible for the explosion. So, either suicide or misadventure.
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Crazy day in DTK yesterday by the sounds of it!
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Looked to me like some work has started on the 5 storey parking podium ground level closest to the church.