Police in Kensington, P.E.I., shut down municipal building over 'potentially hazardous object'

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 14, 2025 7:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago

The municipal gathering successful the cardinal P.E.I. municipality of Kensington was unopen arsenic a precaution connected Monday nighttime aft idiosyncratic brought a "potentially hazardous object" to the constabulary unit headquartered there. 

The occurrence meant the town's planned assembly gathering had to beryllium postponed for a time due to the fact that of what a societal media station called "unforeseen circumstances," with residents urged to debar the area. 

"Kensington Police Service is presently managing a perchance hazardous point located wrong the municipal building," astatine the country of Victoria Avenue East and Woodleigh Drive, the unit said connected societal media astir 7 p.m. AT.

The aforesaid station said officers blocked entree to Woodleigh Drive, including a Tim Hortons drive-through, portion they dealt with the situation. 

The assembly gathering for the municipality of 1,800 people will present beryllium held Tuesday nighttime astatine 6 p.m.

Police Chief Landon Yuill later told CBC News that a section nonmigratory had brought successful an aged mortar, believed to beryllium from the Second World War. 

He stressed that determination was nary hazard to the public, but constabulary unopen down the country arsenic a precaution due to the fact that the mortar could person been a portion of unrecorded munition. 

Yuill said Kensington officials were talking to representatives of the national Department of National Defence based successful Gagetown, N.B., to fig retired however to grip the object.

On its website, DND has immoderate proposal for what to bash if you find "something that looks similar unexploded explosive ordnance," described arsenic subject explosives that did not detonate oregon relation arsenic intended.

• "Do not interaction it, determination it, propulsion things astatine it oregon onslaught it with different objects," is the archetypal recommendation, saying it could termination oregon injure idiosyncratic if it blows up. 
• Then radical are advised to marque a enactment of wherever they saw the entity earlier leaving the determination the aforesaid mode they came to it, and effort to forestall anyone other from approaching the entity portion they await help.
• "As soon arsenic possible, telephone 911 oregon interaction the section police," the DND post continues. "If you are moving connected the site, archer your manager what you found, wherever you recovered it and what you did."