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Man dies in explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons
Canadian Press
Toronto

A man died Sunday after an explosion in the washroom of a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in downtown Toronto, police said.

They did not immediately confirm reports, by radio station AM-640, that a man had entered the washroom shortly before the blast with explosives strapped to his body.

Police said no one else was involved and there were no other injuries. They couldn't say whether the dead man was a customer or an employee.

The blast happened at the shop east of Yonge Street and north of Bloor, one of the busiest intersections in the city, at around 1 p.m. local time. Traffic was tied up in the area and Yonge Street was closed in both directions.

Fire department spokesman Daryl Fuglerud said the man had burns to his body.

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What the hell?
 
^ Hope not. Reports on the radio (680 News) quoted an employee as saying that he had been muttering and swearing to himself as he entered the washroom. Preliminary suggestion is that he was mentally ill and committed suicide.

Having said that let's not discount the possibility of an attempt on the subway some time. Canada is one of the five countries which Osama bin Laden specifically threatened. The other four (US, UK, Spain, and Australia) have been attacked. Not sure if any extra precautions have been taken on the Toronto subway. I don't think there are any new surveillance cameras, for instance, unless they have been well concealed.
 
If Toronto were like Tel-Aviv, remember, a location like this would be perfect. Y'know, the ideal venue for maximum traffic = maximum havoc...
 
Very sad. I asked a cop on the scene if this could have been some sort of accident, but he assured me it was not. And I thought the gun violence was bad...
 
It ain't terrorism - from CBC.ca

No terrorism in deadly Toronto doughnut shop explosion: police
Last Updated Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:23:42 EDT
CBC News

Police have ruled out terrorism as the cause of an explosion at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in a trendy downtown area of Toronto on Sunday, killing one man.

The victim was likely an arsonist or attempting suicide, Staff Sgt. Don Cole of Toronto police told reporters hours after the explosion.
Emergency officials walk outside the Tim Hortons in Toronto where an explosion killed a man on Sunday.

"He's not a strap-on al-Qaeda bomber guy," Cole said. "It sounds to me like a guy who either wanted to do a torch job or commit suicide."

Police said the man apparently carried a can of gasoline into a washroom stall about 1 p.m. local time at the doughtnut shop in the city's Yorkville area, and set off a flash fire that killed him.

The victim was an unidentified male who was pronounced dead at the scene with severe burns to his body. Nobody else was injured.

Explosion triggered flash fire: police

Police Chief Bill Blair earlier described the incident as a flash fire rather than a bombing. Two blocks in the downtown area were cordoned off as police investigated.

"It appears that there has been a very hot and intense fire in an enclosed area within the washroom," Blair said. But he declined at the time to speculate on the cause of the fire.

"Until we determine precisely what happened in that cubicle and what caused those flames that took that man's life, I really can't speculate," he said.

Police said the victim was not a Tim Hortons employee.

They have not confirmed reports the man was seen entering the washroom with wires or possibly explosives strapped to his body.
Toronto police Chief Bill Blair answers reporters' questions outside the doughnut shop Sunday. (Patrick Morell/CBC photo)

After the incident, a police robot was used to remove a duffel bag from the doughnut shop, which is on Yonge Street just north of the intersection with Bloor Street. Explosives experts detonated the bag with a loud bang.

Police did not say what the package contained.

Eunice Almeida, 23, a regular patron of the coffee outlet, told the Canadian Press that a shock wave went through the restaurant.

"There was an explosion in the men's washroom, then there was a stampede and everybody ran out," Almeida said.

Blast rattles shop workers
A police robot removes a suspicious parcel from the shop in the aftermath of the explosion.

Employees who appeared shaken were escorted from the scene, and some attempted to shield their faces from the throng of television cameras.

They refused to answer questions, but Tim Hortons district manager Amin Islam said they were doing well. "I'm just making sure they're going home safely," he said.

Daryl Fuglerud, a spokesman with Toronto's fire department, told reporters the man who died had burns to his body.

"It doesn't appear that there was much of a fire at all," Fuglerud said. "There was a very small amount of smoke upon our arrival."

Fuglerud said the investigation was turned over to police because it was a "possible criminal" case.
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If it was terrorism, he probably would have detonated the bomb right in the middle of the store for the sake of maximium carnage, instead of doing it in the loo.

And for christs' sake, it's in Yahoo.com news.

AoD
 
Yeah, a terrorist would do the most amount of damage, not the least.
 
I knew the IPO release would bite them in the ass one day.
 
Lighting one's self in the shitter is not terrifying.


Sad, but not terrifying.
 
And suicide bombers don't usually die of "severe burns".
 
So, we were fearing this
binladen_cp_6342089.jpg

when it turned out to be more like this
moe.jpg
 
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