VA movie theater explosions

May 19, 2014
Zaina Kahuk
News Writer
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The exploding soda bottles that went off in a busy Virginia movie theaters have been investigated and analyzed. Early Sunday morning at the Tyson Corner Center AMC Theater in Mclean, movie goers were alarmed by the sound of loud bangs. Two-thousand people exited the complex in what the fire marshal described as “controlled chaos.” The explosion occurred in theaters 8 and 3, which are over 30 yards apart and came from soda bottles filled with acid and other chemicals. “Both devices were placed kind of at the end of a long walkway with a protective wall, just as you enter the stadium seating in both theaters,” says Deputy Fire Marshall Mike Reilly. No suspects have been taken into custody, but Reilly is appealing to anyone who may have witness anything peculiar, such as mixing chemicals in the bathroom. No one was hurt in any of the explosions.