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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Possible Drug-Related Explosion Investigated on Federal Campus

An explosion tore through a government lab in Maryland this weekend, and Montgomery County Police say they're investigating whether the blast was related to the manufacture of drugs.

The explosion occurred about 7:30 p.m. Saturday on the Gaithersburg, Md. campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal entity that's part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, a NIST representative confirmed.

Police and firefighters responded and found a blast shield inside a NIST building had flown about 25 feet, indicating a powerful blast.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about we call it a chemical explosion in a government laboratory. It's not like it's a meth lab in a trailer park.

Anonymous said...

No it's like was a meth lab in a government facility, being run by a paid federal employee, while working, after the lab was closed. Nothing wrong with that in this administration.