NORWAY: Oslo central station reopened after evacuation due to suspicious suitcase, later said by police to pose no danger

Record ID: 401757

  • Title: NORWAY: Oslo central station reopened after evacuation due to suspicious suitcase, later said by police to pose no danger
  • Date: 28th July 2011
  • Summary: OSLO, NORWAY (JULY 27, 2011) (REUTERS) WIDE OF POLICE AND FIRE MEN OUTSIDE CENTRAL STATION MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES (SOUNDBITE) (English) POLICE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT TORE BARSTAD SAYING: "Nothing was found of interest for the police so we are finished now, we're done, we're opening everything." POLICE OPEN UP POLICE CORDON FIRE BRIGADE LEAVING BOMB SQUAD TALKING BOMB
  • Embargoed: 12th August 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Norway, Norway
  • Country: Norway
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA2UEELJTJ838C7XFYL2O4C5PL0
  • Story Text: Norwegian police said on Wednesday (July 27) an abandoned suitcase they removed from a bus using a robot at Oslo's central station posed no danger.
    "Nothing was found of interest for the police so we are finished now, we're done, we're opening everything," Police chief superintendent Tore Barstad told reporters.
    He also said the suitcase search likely had nothing to do with the bombing and shooting on Friday that took 76 lives.
    The station was evacuated after a suspicious suitcase was discovered on a bus, and all train and bus service was halted.
    Jack Vaadahl, the driver of a bus scheduled to travel to Oslo airport, told reporters that he reported the suspicious suitcase to station security personnel.
    NTB news agency said someone apparently placed a suitcase on an airport-bound bus near railway track 19 and then left.
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