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Security alert at Melbourne railway station, police unable to locate suspect
A man carrying a backpack has disappeared inside a tunnel at an underground rail station in central Melbourne, sparking a security scare.Police said the man jumped from the platform at Melbourne Central railway station in Latrobe Street about 7am (AEST) and walked into a tunnel along the track towards Flagstaff station, about 1km to the west of Melbourne Central. The man has not been found despite a police search of the underground loop. Security footage also was being checked in an effort to locate the man, who had a backpack, police said. Connex Trains spokesman Andrew Cassidy said some rail services were affected. "It delayed services on the Epping and Hurstbridge lines by 30 minutes," Mr Cassidy told Southern Cross Radio. "In these circumstances obviously you always take the safe course, which is to assume that there is somebody in there and respond accordingly. "That's what we did, with some great support from police and from our own staff, who acted quickly." Posted by: Oztralian 2006-08-24 |
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