Major Train Station Evacuated in False Alarm After Busker’s Guitar Bag Mistaken for Gun Bag

Major Train Station Evacuated in False Alarm After Busker’s Guitar Bag Mistaken for Gun Bag
Platform four at Flagstaff Train Station in Melbourne, Australia, on Aug. 21, 2017. Wpcpey/Wikimedia Commons
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
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Heavily-armed police were called in to investigate reports of a potential shooter after a passenger mistakenly confused a busker’s instrument bag with a gun bag in downtown Melbourne, Australia, on March 28.

The musician had been on the way to play his guitar in the central business district when the Flagstaff train station was suddenly shut down during the morning peak hour commute.

Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
Richard Szabo is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organizations. He has a specialty in business, tourism, hospitality, and healthcare reporting.
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