A suspicious wife
triggered a bomb alert after a GPS tracking device she fitted to her husband's
car was discovered.
West Yorkshire
Police were called to the scene in Leeds, West Yorkshire, after the man called
up to report finding the device in his car at around 10am on Tuesday.
Officers set up a
police cordon around the vehicle and were prepared to evacuate nearby homes
when the woman confessed to planting the tracker herself, the Yorkshire Post
newspaper reported.
A police spokesman
said: "This morning officers were called to a suspicious package in a car
and an operation was put in place."
Leeds City Council's
emergency planning team was contacted to set up temporary accommodation for
evacuated residents in a nearby community centre.
A council
spokeswoman said council officers also assessed which other places, including
schools and public buildings, may have needed evacuation if the device proved
"to be an actual danger".
Photos of the device
were sent to Ministry of Defence bomb disposal experts at around 10am before
they identified it as a GPS (global positioning satellite) tracker about an
hour later.
West Yorkshire
Police decided the man's military background meant he was a potential terror
target, Sky News reported.
No details have been
released about why the woman tried to hide the device in the car.
GPS trackers can be
placed on a person or vehicle and provides details on their movements.
In 2013, a mother
fitted her teenage son with a GPS tracking device so she could monitor his
every move during his gap-year travels.
