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Amanda Butterfield Reporting"He was in the middle of teaching and they came in and said we need to leave. They didn't tell us why."
Students of the Institute of Religion on the UVSC campus were quickly evacuated this morning after suspicious devices were found in the men's bathroom. Two suspicious devices were found plugging toilets in the men's restroom, so the Bomb Squad was called in and one of those devices was detonated.
A janitor pulled one of the devices out of the toilet in the Institute Building.
Derek Hall, UVSC: "It's about fist-size, batteries, wires."
Two such devices were plugging toilets in the men's restroom. The janitor, not knowing what they were, plunged one of them down the toilet. The other he threw outside, then called campus police, and the building was evacuated.
Then the Provo City Bomb Squad moved in, and used a robot to detonate it. Students there had never seen or heard anything like this, neither had the staff.
Jack Christianson, Institute of Religion, UVSC: "I've been here 13 years and it's never happened."
The bomb squad determined the devices weren't lethal, and soon after detonating it, let students back in the building. Now it's up to police to figure out who did this.
It's a public building and about 7,000 students are enrolled there, so it may be hard to figure out who put those devices down the toilet and why.
