Kings Cross reopens after bomb scare when man ‘with suspicious package’ boarded a train forcing hundreds to be evacuated
- Photographs show hundreds of passengers waiting outside King’s Cross Station
- Metropolitan Police said a man with a ‘suspicious package’ was reported
- The man had boarded a train which was then evacuated ‘as a precaution’
- The station has since reopened after a man was arrested by Met Police
London’s King’s Cross Station has reopened after hundreds of passengers were evacuated and swarms of police descended on the scene following a report of a man with a suspicious package.
Photographs shared online show hundreds of passengers waiting outside the station following the evacuation at 8pm.
Crowds were allowed back into the station after a man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence.
Metropolitan Police said a man with a ‘suspicious package’ had boarded a train ‘which was then evacuated as a precaution’.
The incident is not being treated as terrorism-related, police said.
One passenger wrote online: ‘Armed police stormed kings cross. Police dogs have also just entered. Kings cross evacuated.’
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told MailOnline: ‘Police were called to Kings Cross Railway Station at 19.53hrs on Wednesday, 8 December to reports of a man with a suspicious package.
Crowds were allowed back into London’s King’s Cross station after a man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence
Metropolitan Police said a man with a ‘suspicious package’ had boarded a train ‘which was then evacuated as a precaution’
Photographs shared online show hundreds of passengers waiting outside the station following the evacuation
Metropolitan Police said a man with a ‘suspicious package’ had boarded a train ‘which was then evacuated as a precaution’
‘Officers attended. The man had boarded a train, which was then evacuated as a precaution.
‘The man then came off the train and was arrested on suspicion of public order offence. A search of the train was carried out as a precaution. A number of platforms were evacuated.
‘The incident is not being treated as terrorism-related at this time.’
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