Pipe bomb explodes after dog walker 'mistakes it for toolbox'
A homemade pipe bomb has exploded in the hands of a man on the Gold Coast.
The man, 56, found the device on Olsen Avenue on Thursday about 10am.
A Queensland Police spokeswoman told Yahoo News Australia the device then exploded on Edmund Rice Drive in front of a church about 500 metres away.
It was secured after 20 minutes but caused the lockdown of a school and an aged care facility.
The man had found the homemade explosive device in the carpark of a Bunnings Warehouse store nearby and believed it to be a toolbox. He picked it up and carried it away while walking his dogs, Nine News reported.
He has been hospitalised in a stable condition.
Police are yet to charge anyone and aren’t sure if the device was deliberately planted to hurt someone.
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