Fake grenade prompts NYC building evacuation
BY Associated Press
Thursday, April 12, 2012
NEW YORK — Authorities say a novelty grenade was to blame for an evacuation at a building near New York's ground zero.
The police bomb squad was called to 2 World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan at midday Thursday when a security guard reported a package that seemed suspicious.
The NYPD declared the situation all clear about 90 minutes later.
Brookfield Properties, which runs the property, ordered an evacuation as a precaution.
The building is near the World Trade Center site. A 1993 bombing there killed six people and injured more than 1,000. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks killed nearly 3,000 people.
Associated Images:
Members of the evacuation team stand among other office workers after Two World Financial Center was briefly evacuated in New York Thursday. Authorities say an evacuation was ordered as a precaution at a World Financial Center building after a security guard reported a package that seemed suspicious. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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