US Capitol Police are evacuating Cannon House Office Building after report of possible explosive in vehicle nearby

WASHINGTON (WJZ/AP) — Police were investigating a study Thursday of a imaginable explosive instrumentality successful a pickup motortruck extracurricular the Library of Congress connected Capitol Hill and person evacuated the country astir the building, 2 instrumentality enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

U.S. Capitol Police said officers were “responding to a suspicious conveyance adjacent the Library of Congress.” The gathering is adjacent the Capitol and the Supreme Court. Police person besides evacuated the Cannon House Office Building. Congress is connected interruption this week.

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The instrumentality enforcement officials said investigators connected the country were moving to find whether the instrumentality was an operable explosive and whether the antheral successful the motortruck was holding a detonator. The officials were not authorized to publically sermon the substance and spoke connected information of anonymity.

The incidental comes months aft a tube weaponry was near astatine the office of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee successful Washington a time earlier thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol successful January.

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MEDIA ALERT: This is an progressive weaponry menace investigation. The staging country for journalists covering this concern is astatine Constitution and First Street, NW for your safety.

Please proceed to debar the country astir the Library of Congress. pic.twitter.com/jTNVaBmVwR

— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) August 19, 2021

CBS Baltimore Staff