An employee at a scrap yard in Tucson, Arizona, was killed in an explosion apparently caused by unexploded military ordnance. An online report from the Arizona Daily Star says the employee of Tucson Iron & Metal cut into the object presumed to be unexploded ordnance on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015.
A Tucson police officer was flagged down after the explosion and found the employee already deceased, according to the Daily Star report. Subsequently, fire department crews, police bomb squad personnel and bomb squad members from a nearby U.S. Air Force base also arrived on the scene.
The other employees were evacuated while a search for additional ordnance was conducted, although none was found, according to the report.
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