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Town cordoned off after dynamite found at police station (Roundup)
Oct 28, 2010, 1:51 GMT
Wellington - Several blocks of the small New Zealand town of Balclutha were evacuated for hours Thursday after a farmer left about 65 sticks of dynamite on the steps of the police station.
Army explosives experts were called from Christchurch, which is 450 kilometres away, to remove the dynamite for safe disposal.
Police said the farmer did not know how to dispose of the sticks and left them outside the station before telephoning to say they were there.
Police sergeant Mel Aitken told Radio New Zealand that the farmer was extremely lucky that the dynamite, which was 'sweaty, wet and unsafe,' did not explode as he was transporting it.
He said there was no criminal intent.
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