U.K. police carried out a controlled demolition of a suspicious briefcase at Abingdon Green in Westminster in Central London on Friday. News of the incident spread rapidly via Twitter.
Sky News broke the story via its Twitter feed, but there were other accounts as well. “Police carry out controlled explosion on suspicious briefcase at Abingdon Green in Westminster in Central London,” it said.
“What a Friday night! A suspect package was blown up opposite the House of Lords. I saw the robot and sniffer dogs. Am safe,” wrote Twitter user Clare M Coffey.
“Heard the bang. Someone said it was briefcase with anti politics message on it...” she later wrote.
“I’m hearing there’s been a controlled explosion on a suspicious brief case close to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster tonight,” wrote Jason Rosam of the BBC on Twitter.
Another Twitter user wrote: “Some poor [expletive] has left his briefcase in Westminster and it’s been destroyed by police. It will explain the lack of meaningful policy.”
The news comes just hours after a purported nail bomb was detonated near a mosque in Tipton, West Midlands. There were no injuries in the blast.
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