MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th September, 2019) The Australian police said they had arrested one man and carried out evacuations, while a bomb squad conducted a safety check, in Melbourne on Thursday after the man with an "unknown device" had been detected there.
"A 25-year-old man has been arrested and Bomb Response Unit officers are conducting a safety check. Businesses in the area have been evacuated and Racecourse Road has been blocked to traffic and trams between Flemington Road and Boundary Road," the Victoria Police said in a statement published on Facebook.
The statement followed a news release, saying that the security officers had located a man with the unknown device about 10:00 a.m. (midnight GMT) on Thursday.
The police subsequently issued an update, saying that they had declared the area safe and re-opened the road.
