(Regina Police Service/Submitted)

By CJME News

Bomb squad completes removal of unstable chemicals from U of R labs

Jan 7, 2022 | 4:13 PM

The Regina Police Service’s bomb squad and other first responders began the process Friday of removing unstable chemicals from some labs on the University of Regina campus.

The operation was completed at around 2:30 p.m.

On Thursday, the U of R announced a recent inventory check in various science labs had found bottles of older chemicals that had “degraded to a point where they pose a potential explosive hazard if disturbed.”

The labs in question were in the Research and Innovation Centre (RIC) and the Lab Building.

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The university called the RPS’s explosives/chemical disposal experts for advice and then cordoned off the labs.

On Friday morning, the RPS experts started to remove the chemicals with plans of blowing them up.

“Safe disposal of these chemicals will require the use of controlled detonation in a remote, unpopulated area of campus,” the university’s release read. “This may result in loud noises, audible for some distance.”

Members of the public and university community were urged to stay away from campus while the operation was underway.