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Washington's Union Station briefly evacuated over bomb threat
 [REUTERS] Police declared an all-clear at Washington's Union Station and allowed people to re-enter the train terminal after a bomb threat on Wednesday forced a brief evacuation."We didn't find nothing. We wouldn't let you back in if it wasn't all clear," said a police officer, who did not give his name. An Amtrak employee described the incident as a "false alarm" and said there would be a slight delay for trains. The entire incident lasted less than an hour. Scores of panicked people ran out of the U.S. capital's main railway station while police investigated a possible suspicious package after an earlier report of a bomb threat, police said. A Rooters witness said people began running out of the station, a hub for railway, commuter train and subway service in the city, shortly after 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). During the alert, at least 20 police cars, a fire truck, an ambulance and vehicles from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service converged on the station. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-28 |
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