Police investigate report of explosive in truck near Capitol

WASHINGTON — 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 legislature unit offices nearby, encouraging radical to stay calm and usage the underground tunnels if indispensable to evacuate distant from the area. Congress is connected interruption this week.

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 country was artifact disconnected by constabulary cars and barricades. Also responding were the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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.