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Metropolitan Police are investigating a suspicious package near London’s Holborn Underground station. The nearby area has been evacuated as a precaution.
Bomb specialists are on the scene. A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said she did not have any more information about the incident.
UPDATE (9:10 AM EST): Police have stopped investigating and the station has been re-opened.
UPDATE (8:47 AM EST): British police are standing down after false alarm near London’s Holborn underground station.
About Holborn Station
Holborn is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London. It is served by the Central and Piccadilly lines. On the Central line the station is between Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane stations; on the Piccadilly line it is between Covent Garden and Russell Square. The station is located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Close by are the British Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury Square and Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Located at the junction of two earlier tube railway schemes, the station was opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR). The station entrances and below ground circulation were largely reconstructed for the introduction of escalators and the opening of Central line platforms in 1933, making the station the only interchange between the lines. Before 1994, Holborn was the northern terminus of the short and little-frequented Piccadilly line branch to Aldwych and two platforms originally used for this service are disused. One of the disused platforms has been used for location filming when a London Underground station platform is needed.
