UPDATE – No bomb found at Aarhus municipal building

City office evacuated after bomb threat dialled in shortly after noon. Building currently being searched by bomb-sniffing dogs

UPDATE, 18:33: After bomb-sniffing dogs searched the area for hours, police found no trace of explosives at an Aarhus municipal office and have called off their search.  

ORIGINAL, 15:05: Police in Aarhus have sent sniffer dogs sent in to search a municipal office that was evacuated after a phone call threatened to blow up the building

Police were called to the building at Grøndalsvej 2 in the Viby section of the city just after noon, and immediately evacuated 300 people.

Police were uncertain whether the threat was legitimate and have cordoned off the area within a 100 metre radius.

“We’re not taking any risks,” Police spokesperson Mogens Brøndum told The Copenhagen Post. “We should know within the next couple of hours whether the bomb threat is legitimate, or an empty bomb threat.”




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