TomUsher Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Thousands evacuated from Birmingham city centre faced "a real and very credible threat", West Midlands Chief Constable Paul Scott Lee has said. Mr Scott Lee declined to describe the nature of the threat but said intelligence indicated it was genuine. He said the decision to evacuate up to 20,000 people from the city centre had not been taken lightly and came after a "very specific threat". The city centre has now fully reopened to the public. Four suspect packages were blown up but Mr Scott Lee said they had nothing to do with the intelligence warnings. "The threat that we responded to was very specific," he said at a news conference. "It was specific about the time and also the locations." West Midlands Police put up an exclusion cordon around the A38 inner city ring road after the warnings were received. Mr Scott Lee said: "Bearing in mind the current world climate, the public's safety is our absolute priority," he said. "We haven't had this level of threat before (in Birmingham). "The people of Birmingham were in danger last night." More on BBC News More frightening news, the authorities seem to be doing a great job though. Edit: Aiee... just realisd this was posted, under a less descriptive name (an excuse for my mistake :blush: ) See here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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