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A "potentially catastrophic" bomb plot hatched by an expelled high school student has been foiled by police in the US city of Tampa, Florida.
Police said Jared Cano, 17, planned to lay a device at Freedom High School in north Tampa and detonate it as students began the new school year.
Fuel, shrapnel, plastic tubing and timing and fusing devices were found at his home, a police chief said.
Jane Castor said the plot was of a scale never before seen in Tampa.
Mr Cano had been expelled from the school and had hoped to kill or injure more people than the 1999 shooting by two students at Columbine High School in Colorado, Ms Castor said.
That shooting killed 12 students and a teacher.
Ms Castor said police arrested Jared Cano after a tip from an informant. She said he had been arrested on a weapons charge in the past.
He was charged with threatening to throw, project, place or discharge a destructive device, possession of bomb-making materials and a marijuana charge, she added
A "potentially catastrophic" bomb plot hatched by an expelled high school student has been foiled by police in the US city of Tampa, Florida.
Police said Jared Cano, 17, planned to lay a device at Freedom High School in north Tampa and detonate it as students began the new school year.
Fuel, shrapnel, plastic tubing and timing and fusing devices were found at his home, a police chief said.
Jane Castor said the plot was of a scale never before seen in Tampa.
Mr Cano had been expelled from the school and had hoped to kill or injure more people than the 1999 shooting by two students at Columbine High School in Colorado, Ms Castor said.
That shooting killed 12 students and a teacher.
Ms Castor said police arrested Jared Cano after a tip from an informant. She said he had been arrested on a weapons charge in the past.
He was charged with threatening to throw, project, place or discharge a destructive device, possession of bomb-making materials and a marijuana charge, she added