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Police find C4 explosives in lower Manhattan cemetery

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Several blocks of deadly C-4 explosive were found Monday morning in an East Village cemetery, police sources said.

There were no blasting caps found with the bricks, meaning there was no way to detonate the explosive.

“But it’s still C-4, so it’s being taken very seriously,” a police source said.

Six to eight blocks of the plastic, military-grade explosive, formally known as Composition 4, were found in a black plastic garbage bag just inside Marble Cemetery, on E. Second St., between First and Second Aves.

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