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Cork
Controlled explosion carried out on unstable chemical at Cork school
The Defence Forces’ Army Bomb Disposal Team was tasked to Sacred Heart Secondary School in Carrignavar earlier today.
AN ARMY BOMB Disposal Team has carried out a controlled explosion on a quantity of an unstable chemical found in a secondary school laboratory in Cork today.
The chemical Dinitrophenylhydrazine was found to be unsafe at the lab in Sacred Heart Secondary School in Carrignavar, Co Cork with Gardaí requesting a Defence Forces team to deal with the matter.
The team arrived on the scene at 1.40pm and took the chemical to a safe location where a controlled explosion was carried out.
The scene was declared safe at 2.05pm and the team returned to base, the Defence Forces said in a statement.
Dinitrophenylhydrazine is a chemical re-agent routinely used in laboratories around the country but it can become unstable over time.
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