Pipe Bomb Discovered In City Park’s Portable Toilet

A pipe bomb was found Tuesday inside a portable toilet at a city park, police said.

The bomb was removed and detonated by the Port of Seattle police bomb squad, said Renton police spokeswoman Penny Bartley.

A maintenance worker emptying the portable toilet at Kiwanis Park discovered the bomb inside the toilet’s waste container shortly before noon, Bartley said.

The Port of Seattle police assisted because Renton does not have a bomb squad, she said.

It was not clear how long the bomb had been in the toilet or whether it would have gone off at all due to the moisture and corrosion, she said.

In a separate incident, a suspicious package found Tuesday on a subway train at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport turned out to be harmless.