Police: Live Pipe Bomb Found at Polling Place in Iowa

Police: Live Pipe Bomb Found at Polling Place in Iowa
A polling place in Iowa in a file photo. Darron Cummings/AP Photo
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ANKENY, Iowa—The discovery of a live pipe bomb at a central Iowa polling place as voters were casting ballots in a special election forced an evacuation of the building, police said.

Officers called to the Lakeside Center in Ankeny around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday found a device that looked like a pipe bomb in the grass near the center. Police later confirmed in a news release that the device was a pipe bomb.