Moerbeke-Waas In Moerbeke-Waas was the environment of the supermarket Okay this afternoon, completely evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious package with white powder. Dovo came on the spot to the ticking sound in a bananendoos to investigate: it turned out to be a device to keep the temperature of the fruit to measure.
According to mayor Robby De Caluwé struck a member of staff around 15 hours alarm because there is a ticking sound came from a bananendoos in the supermarket. “There is, therefore, no risk is taken and is immediately the supermarket was evacuated. Furthermore, there was a perimeter set of one hundred meters around the shop.
The emergency services including the ontmijningsdienst DOVO, the fire department of Zelzate and the police of the zone Puyenbroeck came on the spot. All traffic in the Statiestraat was diverted and a number of houses in the vicinity of the supermarket were evacuated. The residents waited outside the perimeter the results of the research. “We also raised the retirement home open to local residents that the cold would have and wanted to” let the mayor know.
Short for 18 hours, the true extent was discovered and the alarm is cancelled. It turned out to be a temperature gauge which after the transport of the bananas in one of the boxes was still sitting. “It’s going to be a small receptacle containing a roll of paper on which continuously the temperature is registered”, explains De Caluwé. “The ticking sound came from the needle of the device. Normally, such a temperature sensor only during the transport but now there was apparently such a device by accident in a box.” Around 18 hours was the safety zone lifted. Because the perimeter over was set, kept the number of observing eyes limited.