Social media users have linked the incident with the recent Ohio spill, claiming they were both caused by domestic terrorists or a government plot.
Reports of a pipe bomb being discovered near a train track have prompted conspiracy theories that the incident was somehow linked to recent train derailments, such as the one on the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania that led to a toxic spill.
According to local news station WPVI, citing the Philadelphia Police Department, a passerby spotted a PVC pipe with capped ends and an unknown black powder on Frankford Avenue, in the Holmesburg area to the northeast of the city. Fox News said the 18-inch bomb had been found behind the St. Dominic Catholic Church just before 1:40 p.m. ET on Sunday.A single set of train tracks sits close behind the church, across a cemetery, feeding into Holmesburg Junction station.
St. Dominic Catholic Church on Frankford Avenue in the Holmesburg area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and smoke rising from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023. The two incidents have been linked by social media users.Various reports stated that the police shut the road while its bomb squad removed the suspected device, which has been taken back to its headquarters for further investigation.
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