LONDON — The police evacuated crowds and cordoned off Trafalgar Sq. in central London on Saturday morning after responding to a record of a suspicious car, damn the British capital at the 3rd day of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned on Twitter that the incident, first reported at 9:22 a.m., was once no longer associated with terrorism, although they didn’t specify how that they had come to that conclusion. {A photograph} by way of the Reuters information company confirmed a car being got rid of at the again of a police truck. The sq. was once reopened by way of noon.
“This was once investigated and after police took motion we haven’t any additional worry,” the police tweeted. “This was once no longer terrorism similar.”
Trafalgar Sq. lies on the reverse finish of the Mall from Buckingham Palace, the place a big live performance is scheduled for Saturday night time as a part of the jubilee festivities.
Central London is thronged with guests from somewhere else in Britain and all over the world for a four-day birthday celebration of the queen’s 70 years at the throne. About 20,000 folks have tickets to wait the live performance within the sq. in entrance of the palace that can characteristic performances by way of Diana Ross, Duran Duran and others, in addition to speeches by way of Prince Charles and his elder son, Prince William.
