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Two 15-year-old girls from Ottawa were arrested and charged with mischief on the weekend after a package containing a fake bomb was found downtown last Monday.

The hoax explosive device was called in to police around 11:15 p.m. in the McDonald’s restaurant at 99 Rideau St.

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Police had asked for the public’s assistance in identifying the two in connection with the incident. They had been described as a caucasian woman and a black woman, both between 18 and 25 years old.