Pukatawagan explosion

Aside February 20, 2024 Markosun Manitoba, Music

RCMP explosives experts are on their way to a remote Manitoba First Nation community to deal with a dangerous situation that prompted the evacuation of more than a dozen trailers.

A man in the community of Pukatawagan on Tuesday evening found a box full of blasting caps while cleaning out an old business that had been owned by a construction company and took them home.

He left the box in his yard, near a playground.

RCMP spokeswoman Const. Line Karpish said when police were alerted to the explosives they evacuated 20 trailers in the area.

A blasting cap is a small explosive device generally used to detonate a larger, more powerful secondary explosive such as TNT or dynamite.

Those larger explosive compounds require a certain amount of energy to detonate. Blasting caps, which are much more sensitive and easy to detonate, provide that.

However, they can go off unexpectedly and are hazardous for untrained personnel to handle.

“It wouldn’t be like a huge bang but for all intents and purposes, you know, it could certainly hurt someone’s hand and then, you know, you put 20, 30 together it definitely has potential for harm,” said Karpish.

Karpish warns anyone who may find old explosive materials to just leave them alone and call authorities.

Pukatawagan is located more than 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg, near the Saskatchewan border.

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