University placed on lockdown after 'runner in fitness vest' sparks terror scare

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Armed police placed a university on lockdown after a man wearing a running vest was mistaken for a suicide bomber.

Students at Bournemouth University were ordered to remain indoors as Dorset Police, responding to a “security alert”, carried out a sweep of campus shortly after 2.30pm on Friday.

 

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Anyone see the problem here? Bournemouth. University.

got a weighted vest myself, i dont run around with it on though because it really does look like a bomb vest...

With buildings like that, lockdown seems a reasonable proposition.

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