Suspicious Package Shuts Down Metro Station in Montreal
 

Updated Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:03PM EDT

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Seen on a TV monitor, the Montreal bomb squad's robot is directed toward a suspicious package near Lionel Groulx metro on Wed. April 17, 2013 (CTV Montreal/Matt Joycey)


Montreal:

Montreal police have blown up a suspicious package at the Lionel Groulx metro station.

Commuters spotted the object outside the station's entrance around 7 a.m. on Wednesday.

Police evacuated the station, and metro cars on the Orange and Green lines were instructed not to stop at the station.

Officers set up a security perimeter around the package, and around 8:30 a.m. the bomb squad's robot arrived and began to examine the package.

Over the next two hours a nearby building was evacuated, and after several hiccups with the police robot, the package was finally destroyed.

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Police blocked off an area around Lionel Groulx metro while they investigated a suspicious package on April 17, 2013. (CTV Montreal/Derek Conlon)


About half an hour later Montreal police determined the package did not contain any explosives whatsoever.

The arson squad will now investigate the debris in order to make a thorough assessment of what it contained.


On Tuesday a suitcase left at a gas station near the intersection of Brunswick Blvd. near St. John's Blvd. prompted a large police operation.

The bomb squad gave that suspicious package the all-clear after nearly three hours.