BERLIN—Police have evacuated a Christmas market and the surrounding area in the German city of Potsdam, near Berlin, to investigate a suspicious object, local police said on Twitter on Friday.
Police said special forces were on site to examine the object, which was described by the “Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten” newspaper as a package measuring 40 cm (15.75 inches) by 50 cm that had been delivered to a pharmacy near the market.
