2 suspicious packages’ near NYC subway trigger police op & evacuation
Published time: 16 Aug, 2019 12:30 Edited time: 16 Aug, 2019 12:46
Police officers and a bomb squad have been deployed to inspect two suspicious packages found at a busy subway station in New York City, triggering evacuation.
The NYPD’s counter-terrorism division released photographs of the two objects, which appear to be pressurized cookers that were abandoned on the walkway of the Fulton Street station.
Our @NYPDCT Bomb Squad has cleared the devices inside of Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan. They are NOT explosive devices.
Out of an abundance of caution officers have searched nearby stations. pic.twitter.com/Y32I9DFEDf
— NYPDCounterterrorism (@NYPDCT) August 16, 2019
“Our @NYPDCT Bomb Squad has cleared the devices inside of Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan. They are NOT explosive devices. Out of an abundance of caution officers have searched nearby stations,” the division announced in a message on its official Twitter account.
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