UPDATE: Nanaimo RCMP say it was the right call to evacuate people from an area of Discontent City yesterday, with explosive materials inside a sharps container.

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Some residents were evacuated to the New Hope Centre, not the conference centre as police initially reported.

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FRIDAY NIGHT: Nanaimo RCMP have evacuated people out of a section of Discontent City and have called in a bomb disposal unit after finding what police have described as an explosive device in the homeless camp Friday afternoon.

Const. Gary Osa国际传媒橞rien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, said the device was found shortly after 4 p.m. Police have cordoned off the area and are evacuating some of the campsa国际传媒檚 residents.

RCMP at the scene were extending the police line outward on Friday evening.

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He said the device was found along the fence line across the street from Port Place shopping centre and an area within a radius of about 100 metres from where the device was located has been evacuated.

Police did not immediately elaborate on the nature or type of the explosive materials found.

The RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit is coming from Vancouver.

The incident happened the same day an injunction against the homeless camp took effect, though City of Nanaimo Mayor Bill McKay announced this afternoon that there will be until the B.C. Supreme Court has had a chance to consider an extension for residents to relocate. The provincial government announced earlier this month that would be set up in Nanaimo in November.

Nanaimo RCMP have set up a police line around part of Discontent City and are extending that police line out after an explosive device was found this afternoon. A bomb disposal unit is en route.

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