
Police briefly evacuated the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, home to US President-elect Donald Trump, late Tuesday afternoon as police investigated a suspicious package that turned out a be an unattended backpack filled with children's toys, authorities said.
A senior NYPD official tells NBC News that a suspicious knapsack located near the Niketown store in the building led officials to clear the area in the Trump Tower atrium, which is open to the public.
A bomb squad was called as a precaution to investigate, and the bag was deemed safe shortly afterward, the NYPD said. It contained children's toys.
The investigation exacerbated gridlock around the midtown block, which has already been partially closed off since Trump was elected president. Holiday traffic and rush-hour traffic had also congested the area.
President-elect Donald Trump lives in the tower and has his offices there, though he was at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when the bag was discovered.
Source: QNA
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