Fake bomb found at UofT Scarborough detonated [Video]

Toronto police are investigating after a fake bomb was left at the University of Toronto Scarborough that prompted two buildings to be evacuated on Tuesday.

Toronto police said they received a call at 3:45 p.m. that a suspicious package had been located on campus in the area of Military Trail and Ellesmere Road.

According to the university, campus safety discovered the package during a regular patrol in the Environmental Sciences and Chemistry Building.

Duty Insp. Dan Pravica said officers from 43 Division and members of the Explosive Disposal Unit attended the campus and confirmed that the package “had the characteristics of an explosive device.”

“A remote robot was sent in. The device was photographed and X-rayed. What the officers determined based on seeing the X-rays led them to believe that it was an explosive device,” he said.

As a result, out of an abundance of caution, the Environmental Sciences and …