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Suspect package sparks false alarm in Lausanne

The south side of Lausanne’s central Saint-Francois area was blocked off on Tuesday morning as police investigated a suspect package.

Published: 16 August 2016 11:37 CEST
Suspect package sparks false alarm in Lausanne
Lausanne's St Francois. File photo: Yann Gar

Police in the city, in the canton of Vaud, evacuated the main post office at Saint-Francois after employees raised the alert.

“We were alerted to the presence of a suspect package,” Lausanne police spokesman Sébastian Jost told Le Tribune de Genève.

A team of around 25 police officers were mobilized to secure the zone, allowing bomb disposal experts to intervene, said the paper.

The alert was lifted later in the morning after the offending package turned out to contain clothes, said the paper.

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Six injured as car rams into crowd in Switzerland

Five children and a woman were injured on Sunday when a car accidentally rammed into people gathered for a target shooting festival in Switzerland, police said.

Published: 5 June 2023 10:35 CEST
Six injured as car rams into crowd in Switzerland

A woman frantically looking for help for an injured child drove into the square in Menieres, in the western Swiss canton of Fribourg, on Sunday where a shooting festival was taking place.

The car slammed into a group of people, injuring a woman and five children, Fribourg police said.

Several ambulances transported the injured to surrounding hospitals after the accident, which happened shortly before 3:30pm.

“Initial information indicates that the driver entered the festival square transporting a child who had been injured during a private activity,” the police said.

“For a reason to be determined by an investigation, she accidentally hit and injured people on the square before coming to a halt.”

The driver, who was not injured, was taken to a police station for questioning.

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