There has been a call for a full inquiry after Manchester United’s final Premier League game of the season was abandoned following the discovery of an apparent explosive device that later turned out to be a fake bomb planted as part of a training exercise.
Greater Manchester’s police and crime commissioner, Tony Lloyd, said it was necessary to find out how the bogus explosive came to be left behind by a security company.
The blunder led to United’s home stadium being evacuated 20 minutes before their match against Bournemouth was due to kick off after an “incredibly lifelike explosive device” was found at the ground.
“It is outrageous this situation arose and a full inquiry is required to urgently find out how this happened, why it happened and who will be held accountable,” said Lloyd.
“This fiasco caused massive inconvenience to supporters who had come from far and wide to watch the match, wasted the time of huge numbers of police officers and the army’s bomb squad and unnecessarily put people in danger, as evacuating tens of thousands of people from a football stadium is not without risk.”
Army bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion on the dummy device, which was discovered in the toilets within the north-west quadrant of the stadium, between the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand and the Stretford End.
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