Madeleine Pulver safe after 10-hour battle to remove bomb around neck

Mike Gallagher

Aug 3, 2011 - 19:41

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Madeleine Pulver safe after 10-hour battle to remove bomb around neck

Ordeal: Petrified Madeleine Pulver called the police after the intruder strapped the device to her neck

SYDNEY - Australian police say a suspicious device that was attached to a Sydney teen contained no explosives.

New South Wales state Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch said Thursday that someone attached the device to 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver as part of an elaborate hoax.

Pulver spent 10 horrifying hours attached to the device in her suburban Sydney home as a bomb squad tried to figure out if it contained explosives.

Murdoch said a person wearing a disguise entered the woman's suburban Sydney home on Wednesday afteoon and attached the device to her body. Officials spent 10 hours working to free her.

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Madeleine Pulver had a device strapped to her neck by an intruder and police had to spend ten painstaking hours trying to detach it

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Tense: Police and bomb officers stood outside the mansion in, Mosman, Sydney where the 18-year-old girl had a bomb strapped to her collar

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Nail-biting: Police officers, wearing protective equipment, had to spend hours trying to work out what the device was and how to free the terrified teenager