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Politics

Fake bomb causes evacuation of Dutch parliament building

FILE PHOTO: Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders speaks to the media following the verdict in his appeal in Schiphol near Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 4, 2020. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

The Dutch parliament building was evacuated for a short while on Thursday afternoon after a bomb alert that turned out to be false.

Local police said an explosives team had investigated a package at the building in downtown The Hague and had subsequently allowed people to re-enter, about an hour after they had been ordered to leave.

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