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Precautionary evacuation at World Financial Center

April 12, 2012 RSS Feed Print

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an evacuation was ordered as a precaution at a World Financial Center building after a security guard reported a package that seemed suspicious.

The police bomb squad was called to 2 World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan at midday Thursday.

The package was spotted during routine screening.

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