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Flashlight bombs puzzle Phoenix authorities

By Amanda Lee Myers
Published June 8, 2012 8:37pm ET
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Flashlight bombs puzzle Phoenix authorities
One of twenty public service announcement billboards on display across the Phoenix metro area along highways are warning citizens about picking up discarded flashlights Thursday, June 7, 2012, in Phoenix. In three separate incidents, unsuspecting bystanders picked up standard-looking yellow flashlights and flicked the switch to turn them on. But instead of lighting up as they should have, bombs that had been left inside the flashlights exploded in their hands. Five people in all received minor injuries, but authorities in the Phoenix area still have no idea who committed the bombings last month.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) | Ross D. Franklin

PHOENIX (AP) — Flick the switch on these flashlights and they don’t light up. They blow up.

Three of these bombs have exploded within the last month in the Phoenix area, causing minor injuries to five people and raising fears of more serious ones.

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