Scottish police orders evacuation over suspicious package
Police in the United Kingdom continue to receive reports of suspicious packages being sent to crowded places with possible connections to Ireland-related terrorist groups."
The Scottish police said Thursday they had ordered evacuation of a building in a key street of Edinburgh after they received reports about a potential bomb parcel in the facility.
“We received a report of a suspicious package having been received at a business premises on Princes Street at around 12.30pm today,” Edinburgh Police said on Twitter, adding “The building has been evacuated as a precaution & officers are in attendance to progress inquiries.”
Police said they will update the public about the incident and whether it was related to a similar operation on Wednesday in Glasgow where officers carried out a controlled explosion in the main university in the city a bomb package had been discovered.
Police in the capital London also received reports of a suspicious package in east of the city on Wednesday, a day after white postal bags containing small parcel bombs were sent to London’s Heathrow and City Airport, and its busiest train station Waterloo.
The arrival of parcel bombs have increased fears about a return of violence to Britain as the country is still on high alert over a series of terrorist attacks that killed scores of people over the several past years.
Fears about terrorism have intensified in light of renewed separatist activities in Northern Ireland, a British province where a decades-old insurgency led to deaths for thousands of people in the region, as well as in the Republic of Ireland and in mainland Britain until late 1990s.
Irish separatists have launched at least three major attacks, a bombing and two shootings, in Northern Ireland this year. Many fear a disorderly British withdrawal from the European Union at the end of March, which would lead to a hard border between the two Irelands, would escalate the situation.
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