In the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil where the suspected getaway car was discovered, a local resident told a Reuters cameraman that police had cordoned off the area around the vehicle around midnight and brought in an anti-explosives vehicle in case it was booby trapped.
They had to shoot the body several times before going near because they were afraid it was booby-trapped.
His apartment was rigged with jars of liquids, explosives and chemicals that were booby trapped to kill "whoever entered it," Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said, noting it would have likely been one of his officers.
The cage included one particularly tall perch that closely resembled an electrical tower and was booby trapped to give birds landing on it a mild shock.
The army says that suicide bombers have attacked soldiers in the camp, and that many homes there had been booby trapped.
Then, worried that the S.U.V. might have been booby trapped, the police used a robot to approach the vehicle which resembled the ones featured in "The Hurt Locker," the Oscar-winning movie about a bomb-disposal team in Iraq.
"Women are being booby trapped left and right," Rigg added.
Hamas said that the house of 27-year-old Younis al-Honnor was booby trapped and contained "explosive belts, explosive devises, and rifle-propelled grenades" — but the Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade labeled it murder committed in "cold blood".
37 prisoners climbed into the back of the lorry, while Gerry Kelly lay on the floor of the cab with a gun pointed at the driver, who was also told the cab had been booby trapped with a hand grenade.
It looks very sophisticated, how it's booby-trapped.
"It looks like it's booby-trapped," she said disapprovingly, and said that her lawn, which features a light-encrusted reindeer bolted to a tilted piece of plywood to simulate takeoff, was practically bulb-free by comparison.
