An office building at the University of Oxford’s Templeton College was evacuated this morning after two incendiary devices were discovered there, the Oxford Mail reported. Police officials cordoned off the area while a bomb squad removed the devices. A police official later said the bombs posed no danger to the public.

An animal-rights group that opposes a new Oxford biomedical-research facility, which would include animal-testing laboratories, could be responsible for planting the devices, the newspaper said. An anonymous communiqué posted on Sunday on a Web site of the Animal Liberation Front said the group had carried out an arson attack on temporary offices at Templeton on February 18 as “part of an ongoing fight against the University of Oxford and its continued reign of terror over the unseen victims inside its animal labs.”

The group, which has claimed credit for numerous attacks on research facilities in the United States, has not taken responsibility for the bombs found at Templeton today, but a spokesman told the Mail it was “probable that the ALF is responsible for planting these devices.”

The Oxford biomedical-research facility has been under construction for several years, and courts have issued injunctions in 2004 and 2006 barring protesters from harassing contractors or university employees. Templeton College, a graduate business school, has no connection to biomedical research and is located on the outskirts of Oxford, away from the main university area.