{"id":413520,"date":"2026-01-15T01:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413520\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:06:20","slug":"police-say-11-explosive-devices-found-on-canberra-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413520\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say 11 explosive devices found on Canberra streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Canberra say they have found 11 explosive devices lying next to footpaths in the city’s north-west in the past two days.<\/p>\n

An alert was issued on Wednesday after several pipe bombs were found in public areas<\/a> around Lake Ginninderra between Joynton Smith Drive and Ginninderra Drive in Belconnen.<\/p>\n

ACT Policing’s Detective Acting Inspector Anna Wronski told ABC Radio Canberra that anyone who finds a suspicious item should not touch it, and should contact Triple Zero (000) immediately.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Eleven pipe bombs were discovered around Lake Ginninderra in Canberra’s north. (Supplied: ACT Policing)<\/p>\n

“Any explosive is dangerous, thankfully there haven’t been any reported injuries but we are concerned these devices have been left in public where anyone could step on them and pick them up,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We are treating this very seriously and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n

“What we’re actually asking the community to do, is if they come across any of these suspicious items, to immediately call police on Triple Zero.”<\/p>\n

Some explosives were detonated\"A<\/p>\n

ACT Policing Detective Acting Inspector Anna Wronski says some of the explosives were detonated prior to police locating them. (ABC News: Luke Stephenson)<\/p>\n

Detective Acting Inspector Wronski said there were no concerns for people to avoid the area, but reiterated advice to contact police if a member of the public found something resembling one of the devices.<\/p>\n

“Some of the devices that have been located have been detonated prior to police locating them and some have not yet detonated,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We do not want members of the public to pick them up, we do not want them to bring them to police stations.<\/p>\n

“We are not aware of anyone sustaining injuries from a detonation of one of these devices.<\/p>\n

“However, they are explosives and so for anyone who locates them, don’t touch the item and to call police immediately.”<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Sniffer dogs have been deployed to help with the search for explosive devices in Canberra. (ABC News: Luke Stephenson)<\/p>\n

She said it would be “inappropriate” to comment on why the devices were being left in public spaces, but said it was not being treated as an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n

No property has been damaged by the devices.<\/p>\n

Police said there was no indication the devices had been found in other parts of Canberra.<\/p>\n

They released images showing silver pipe-shaped objects lying on the ground outdoors. They have screw tops and can fit in a person’s hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Canberra say they have found 11 explosive devices lying next to footpaths in the city’s north-west…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2666,42182,64,63,155458,2667,2479,218616,5315,2668,44,19316,1158,28813,1634],"class_list":["post-413520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-act","tag-act-policing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bomb","tag-canberra","tag-dangerous","tag-explosive-device","tag-investigation","tag-local-stories","tag-news","tag-pipe","tag-police","tag-public","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}