Billboards across the Phoenix metro are warning citizens about picking up discarded flashlightsx. In three separate incidents, unsuspecting bystanders picked up standard-looking yellow flashlights and flicked the switch to turn them on. But instead of lighting up, bombs that had been left inside the flashlights exploded in their hands. Five people in all received minor injuries, but authorities in the Phoenix area still have no idea who committed the bombings last month.By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press
PHOENIX – Flick the switch on these flashlights and they don’t light up. They blow up.
Three of these bombs have exploded within the last month in the Phoenix area, causing minor injuries to five people and raising fears of more serious ones.
Police still have no idea who is behind them and have taken the unusual step of putting up 22 billboards across the sprawling metro area to warn residents about discarded flashlights.