Indiana: Bomb squad blows up roadside bomb in LaPorte County

A bomb squad safely blew up a roadside bomb that was found near the town of Trail Creek Monday, and now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is helping with an investigation into who put it there and why.

While cleaning trash from a ditch, a resident found an IED, or improvised explosive device, on the side of Welnetz Road in LaPorte County Monday afternoon and brought the device back home, believing it to be a homemade firework, LaPorte County Sheriff's Office Capt. Mike Kellems said.

The IED consisted of two mason jars filled with pipe bombs and a flammable liquid, Kellems said. They were connected with a homemade fuse that would have to be manually lit to ignite the bomb, he said.

LaPorte County deputies summoned the Porter County Bomb Squad to a home on Longwood Drive near U.S. 20. Police evacuated the home and blocked off Longwood Drive between the highway and Welnetz Road as they worked to defuse the device.

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