Bomb team alert after Shropshire incendiary device find
Bomb disposal experts were called to a motel in Shropshire after an incendiary device was found in a room.
The police force's explosive ordnance disposal team were called out to Cunnery Road in Church Stretton, just off High Street at 5pm yesterday.
A small homemade incendiary device was found in a room at Oakbank Motel, and the road was closed for less than an hour as police dealt with the package.
Inspector James Ashton said the police team were called to the scene as a precaution and that the package was not a cause of concern for the public.
There was no evacuation radius in place and no members of public were under threat.
Owner of the motel, David Bayley, said the incident had got out of hand when the police had been called in.
Mr Bayley, who has run the motel for the last 10 years, said: "We found the device and it was a small incendiary device but it was never really going to cause any harm to anyone and it has been a bit of an over-reaction to it really, but that's the way the police are these days.
"I don't know whether the person had made it for fun or what.
"He had probably found out how to make it off the internet or something.
"No-one was ever in any danger and it wasn't really that much of a big deal because we had to call the police because the tenant would have had to have been evicted.
"We've been here about 10 years and this has never happened to us before, but the man had to be evicted because we wouldn't feel comfortable with any devices like that in our property."
Inspector Ashton said: "We were looking into reports of a suspicious package and the explosive ordnance disposal team were called.
"There was no cause for concern for the public and it was not something that we were worried about. However, with a suspicious package we cannot just pick it up and shake it to find out what it is so we have to call in the team.
"No-one has been arrested at this time."
