Bag near San Francisco Federal Reserve said safe
Posted on: Monday, 27 March 2006, 15:35 CST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A suspicious suitcase found near the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank prompted police to reroute traffic and evacuate some nearby shops for a short time on Monday before declaring the area safe.
Police briefly rerouted traffic and BART subway trains skipped the nearest station. Some stores on Market Street but not the Federal Reserve or big office buildings were evacuated, police said.
Roughly an hour after a passerby first reported the object to police at about 11:15 a.m., bomb squad investigators determined it was safe to return to the area near the Embarcadero waterfront. The brown suitcase was removed.
Carol Eckert, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Federal Reserve where about 1,200 people work, said workers had to briefly use alternate exits.
Source: REUTERS
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