LONDON — The police evacuated crowds and cordoned off Trafalgar Sq. on Saturday morning, rattling the British capital on the third day of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.
The Metropolitan Police didn’t specify what had prompted the evacuation, however stated in a tweet that officers had been at the moment on the scene within the sq., which lies on the reverse finish of the Mall from Buckingham Palace, the place there’s a giant live performance scheduled for Saturday night.
A couple of minutes later, the police tweeted that the “incident has now been concluded” and that they’d reopen the sq. “sooner or later.” There have been no additional particulars of the character of the incident instantly accessible on Saturday morning.