People have been evacuated from Trafalgar Square in London after a suspicious package was found this morning. The tourist destination was closed by police following an incident, but is expected to reopen shortly.
There had been reports of people hearing a loud bang following a controlled explosion at around 11am. Tourist Sarah Churchill who was in Trafalgar Square at the time, with her 11-year-old son Noah, told the Mirror : "There were lots of police, we were just about to walk through the square when we got to corner we saw it was cordoned off."
She said a police officer told her it was a suspicious package: "I don't know if was a controlled explosion, but no one told us it was about to go off. The policeman looked shocked," she said.
