Evacuations in Mass. town after suspicious objects found during death investigation, police say

A suspicious device was found during an unattended death investigation in a Massachusetts town on Friday, prompting a massive emergency response and evacuations.

Officers and detectives responding to a call for an unattended death at 201 Main Street in Milford around 11:40 a.m. discovered “several suspicious objects that could possibly be identified as homemade explosives,” according to the Milford Police Department.

Police ordered evacuations out of an abundance of caution and shut down Exchange Street and sections of Main Street for just over two hours as the Milford Fire Department and Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad cleared the scene…

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