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People were urged to leave their homes as explosives specialists descended on the scene\"Bomb<\/p>\n

Bomb disposal units at the scene(Image: ASM)<\/p>\n

A backpack sparked a major emergency response with bomb disposal units called out to the scene in Fallowfield<\/a>, the M.E.N understands. Residents were evacuated from their homes amid the incident<\/a> on Abram Close on Saturday night (June 6).<\/p>\n

The residential street was taped off and became a scene busy with emergency services,<\/a> including fire crews, ambulances and army bomb disposal experts, following the report made at around 6pm.<\/p>\n

Around 20 neighbouring properties were advised to evacuate, with residents not allowed to return home until around 11pm. One resident described seeing a bomb disposal robot being sent into the property with investigations focussed around a front garden.<\/p>\n

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A cordon remained in place into the early hours of Sunday morning. It’s now understood this followed reports of a backpack containing bottles filled with an unknown substance. Investigations into the incident remain ongoing.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police<\/a> confirmed on Sunday that the scene had been stood down with a full investigation underway. No further details have been released.<\/p>\n

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The emergency services on Abram Close in Fallowfield (Image: ASM)<\/p>\n

One resident described seeing a bomb disposal robot being sent into the property. He said: “I’m a bit nervous about what’s going on right now. This is quite a peaceful neighbourhood. This community is really tiny.”<\/p>\n

Another eyewitness told the Manchester Evening News: “I was going to my sister\u2019s and they were telling everyone to evacuate out of the streets. They would not let us through and they started to put a cordon up. Everybody was told to go back. They pushed everyone back. There are loads of fire crews and ambulances here.”<\/p>\n

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Homes were evacuated (Image: ASM)<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police<\/a> confirmed officers were called to a ‘suspicious item in a front garden’ shortly after 6.05pm. One eye witness told the Manchester Evening News: “I was going to my sister\u2019s and they were telling everyone to evacuate out of the streets. They would not let us through and they started to put a cordon up.<\/p>\n

In an update on Sunday, the force added: “The scene has been stood down, package safely removed and an investigation is ongoing into the full circumstances.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People were urged to leave their homes as explosives specialists descended on the scene Bomb disposal units at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1011290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,8855,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":["post-1011289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-fallowfield","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116709152205028608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}