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Fake bomb sees Manchester United game abandoned on final day of season

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Police dismantled a fake bomb inside Old Trafford on an unnerving final day of the Premier League season that forced the abandonment of Manchester United's game against Bournemouth before kickoff on Sunday.

  

Two stands in United's 75,000-capacity stadium in northern England were initially evacuated before the scheduled 3pm kickoff time. As military personnel arrived, the remaining fans and the players were ordered to leave England's second biggest soccer stadium.

 

A bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion on what police described as an "incredibly lifelike explosive device" but one that was not "viable."

 

 

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