Suspicious package declared safe after bomb disposal experts sent

Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-25 19:12:19|Editor: ying
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LONDON, May 25 (Xinhua) -- A possible suspicious package has been declared safe after army bomb disposal experts were called to a street in Hulme, near Manchester city centre, BBC reported Thursday.

The scare followed Monday's bomb attack at Manchester Arena in which 22 people died and 64 were injured.

Several roads were closed during the incident. Cordons have now been lifted.

Meanwhile the threat level "will remain at critical and the public should remain vigilant",the UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said.

She was speaking after a meeting of the government's emergency committee, Cobra.

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi, a son of Libyan parents, detonated a homemade device at an Ariana Grande show in Manchester, England on Monday night.

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