Holy shit.

I hope this is just British hysteria, a la all those bogus Jack the Ripper letters in the 19th century. I'm going to assume some joker just sent a prank warning.

But it's very worrisome.

UPDATE: It looks like most of the suspicious packages have been dealt with, and it was just the "centre" of the city that had to be evacuated. So there have been confused tourists heading back to their hotels much too early—not a bad tradeoff for public safety.

I'd still like to hear what happened to that last suspicious item.

Authorities are stressing that this isn't connected with events in London, but I'm not sure they wouldn't say that anyway.

UPDATE: Looks like everyone is safe and sound, but some people did have to sleep outside. That last package was determined to be harmless.

The authorities defend the incident by saying their intelligence was "specific," and "credible."

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