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| Baltimore TV station evacuated over costumed man ‘with bomb’ | |
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| A costumed man claiming to have documents related to “Panama papers” on a flash drive prompted an evacuation of the WBFF TV station in Baltimore, Maryland. A vehicle was set on fire in the parking lot outside the station, a local Fox affiliate. | |
| A vehicle had been set on fire in the parking lot outside the station, a local Fox affiliate. Firefighters have put out the fire, while police are on the scene investigating reports of a man wearing a “bulky suit of some kind” in the building lobby. | A vehicle had been set on fire in the parking lot outside the station, a local Fox affiliate. Firefighters have put out the fire, while police are on the scene investigating reports of a man wearing a “bulky suit of some kind” in the building lobby. |
| WBFF reporter Shelley Orman said there was a “man inside the lobby saying he has a bomb strapped to him.” | |
| Around 3 p.m. local time, Orman reported that she heard several loud shots, and the police radio saying the suspect will need medical attention. It was unclear whether he was shot with live ammunition or bean-bag rounds. | |
| "Someone came into the front of the building and they apparently said that they had some information they wanted to get on the air," the station’s News Director Mike Tomko told reporters. “He talked to me and was wearing what appears to be a full body white panda suit, surgical mask and sunglasses. He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air.” | "Someone came into the front of the building and they apparently said that they had some information they wanted to get on the air," the station’s News Director Mike Tomko told reporters. “He talked to me and was wearing what appears to be a full body white panda suit, surgical mask and sunglasses. He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air.” |
| The man reportedly said his information was linked to the “Panama Papers,” the leaked records from the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca published earlier this month by a German newspaper. | |
| The man’s outfit appears to be a “hedgehog onesie,” according to WJZ-TV, a CBS affiliate in Baltimore. | The man’s outfit appears to be a “hedgehog onesie,” according to WJZ-TV, a CBS affiliate in Baltimore. |