Police Investigate Suspicious Vehicle on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON — The United States Capitol Police were investigating a “suspicious vehicle” extracurricular the Library of Congress connected Thursday, telling radical to debar the area.

In alerts to Capitol Hill unit members, the constabulary urged immoderate radical to determination wrong offices, fastener doors and enactment distant from windows, and told others to evacuate to designated assembly areas.

The constabulary were investigating a imaginable explosive successful a conveyance adjacent the Library of Congress, according to a legislature official.

The Metropolitan Police Department was “assisting with the study of an progressive weaponry menace involving a suspicious vehicle,” and “currently evacuating the area,” according to a spokeswoman, Alaina Gertz.

The Capitol Police declined to supply details astir the probe and referred questions to the agency’s Twitter account, which urged radical to enactment distant from the area.

The menace unsettled visitors and employees astatine the Capitol, 8 months aft a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Hill connected Jan. 6, successful a convulsive effort to forestall Congress from certifying the results of the statesmanlike election.

Glenn Thrush and Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting.