{"id":18061,"date":"2022-06-04T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=18061"},"modified":"2022-06-04T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T12:00:12","slug":"police-evacuated-trafalgar-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/04\/police-evacuated-trafalgar-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Police evacuated Trafalgar Square after the public was told to leave and a &#8220;loud bang&#8221; was heard."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll bring you the most recent updates, photos, and video on this breaking news story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have evacuated Trafalgar Square in London after a suspicious package was discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eyewitnesses have reported hearing a loud bang, though this has yet to be officially confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah Churchill, a tourist with her 11-year-old son Noah in Trafalgar Square at the time, told: &#8220;I was in the square when the bomb went off.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There were a lot of police, we were about to walk through the square when we got to the corner and saw it was cordoned off,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were speaking with a police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He said it was a suspicious package, but it wasn&#8217;t a controlled explosion, and no one warned us it was about to go off.&#8221; &#8220;The officer appeared stunned.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We could see lots of police and what looked like a bomb squad van, and we were just going to walk down to the Mall to see how everything was set up for tonight, when we found the area cordoned off,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah, 38, said the noise of the bomb 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