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(KSL TV) Salt Lake County fire and bomb crews responded to an Albertsons grocery store in Riverton after an employee found a bomb.
¶NAT The employee had gone outside the store at 1784 W. 12600 South to do some work yesterday and instead found a pvc pipe bomb in a gutter.
It was wrapped in duct tape with several matches inside the tape. Investigators say it looked as if it had been lit, but malfunctioned.
Bob Halloran/ Salt Lake County Bomb Technician: "THIS IS VERY SERIOUS STUFF, AND UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE IT IS A VERY SERIOUS CRIME."
Making a bomb like this is a second degree felony in Utah.
