{"id":229999,"date":"2025-07-01T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229999\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:46:11","slug":"watch-birmingham-city-centre-buildings-evacuated-after-suspicious-package-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229999\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Birmingham city centre buildings evacuated after &#8216;suspicious package&#8217; discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> had urged members of the public to avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham&#8217;s<\/a> Centenary Square after a &#8216;suspicious package&#8217; was discovered in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were alerted to the package just before 3pm on Tuesday (July 1), quickly putting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/07\/01\/police-cordon-in-place-and-buildings-evacuated-after-suspicious-package-found-in-birminghams-centenary-square\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cordon<\/a> in place while they investigated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/834499ab-0ffd-4535-b2b5-8eafdcf8c0cb.jpg\"   alt=\"Police cordon around Centenary Square in Birmingham.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Police cordon around Centenary Square in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>A number of buildings were also evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve currently got a cordon in place around Centenary Square, Birmingham city centre, while we investigate a suspicious package.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were alerted just before 3pm, and a number of buildings have been evacuated as a precaution while it&#8217;s assessed. Please avoid the area.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police confirmed that the cordon was lifted just after 4.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Police had urged members of the public to avoid Birmingham&#8217;s Centenary Square after a &#8216;suspicious package&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10235,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-229999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-latest-videos","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114779467619467639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229999","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=229999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}