NCBomb squads rushed to more than 40 schools in YorkshireARMY bomb disposal squads rushed to more than 600 schools in the UK over fears of chemical explosions across the county.
Controlled explosions were carried out between October 21 and December 21, 2016 after schools were warned by the government advisory science servie CLEAPSS about old stocks of 2.4 dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) in teaching labs.
The government’s science advisory service advised schools last autumn to check whether they had old supplies of the dangerous chemical.
The warning sparked an urgent number of calls to the Army over fears 595 school science labs across the country would explode.
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