No bomb on CMU campus

Pittsburgh Police responded to a report of a bomb in a Carnegie Mellon University parking… Pittsburgh Police responded to a report of a bomb in a Carnegie Mellon University parking lot yesterday and later deemed the area safe.

Forbes Avenue was closed for more than an hour yesterday afternoon after someone called 911 and allegedly saw a person putting a bomb in a white car.

Police later spotted the reported car and pulled it over in a parking lot on Carnegie Mellon’s campus. After inspection the device was rendered safe, according to Pittsburgh Police Zone 4 spokesman Matthew White.

“Someone called in what they thought may have been a bomb,” White said. “The car was inspected at CMU, which does a lot of work with the Defense Department, so it was a call we had to take seriously.”

Forbes Avenue reopened around 2:30 p.m. yesterday after the Allegheny County bomb squad found a cylinder in the back of the car and deemed it not to be dangerous.

The driver was detained for questioning and an investigation is pending.

White admitted that the recent incident at Virginia Tech has people more anxious and that more precautions than usual are now needed.

“Virginia Tech has everyone on edge,” he said. “This week is also the anniversary of the Columbine shootings and the bombing at Oklahoma City.”