Los Angeles, Aug 26 (IANS) Around 2,000 students and staff of a school in Los Angeles were evacuated Wednesday after a pipe bomb was found in the campus, police said.

A bomb squad was dispatched immediately to the Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles to disable and remove the item, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer Rosario Herrera was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

Traffic was routed away from the campus, he said.