LONDON – Police on Wednesday used a bomb disposal robot and carried out acontrolled explosion on a package found in central London near the Britishparliament.
Although the package was later found not to be suspicious, emergencyservices were called to gardens next to the River Thames during theafternoon, a police spokesperson said.
“We’ve just been told it’s all been stood down — non-suspicious,” he told*AFP*.
An *AFP* photographer at the scene saw a bomb disposal robot being deployedand a small explosion was heard.
A building where many MPs have their offices was also cordoned off alongwith Victoria Embankment which leads to parliament.
The area was targeted in a terror attack last year when Khalid Masood moweddown and killed five pedestrians before fatally stabbing a police officeroutside parliament.
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Masood was then shot dead by a police bodyguard.
Salih Khater, a Sudanese-born British national, crashed his car into thesecurity barriers outside parliament in August this year in anothersuspected attack.
He is due to go on trial for attempted murder. – APP/AFP
