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France's Square of the Republic evacuated after bomb alert: report

Xinhua, November 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

France's Square of the Republic and the metro station of the Republic were evacuated Tuesday around 1300 local time (1200 GMT) during a "normal procedure for verification" by the police, French BFMTV reported on Tuesday on its website.

"There was an anonymous call to report that a bomb would explode at 14h00. Even if it is a hoax, we have to take the threat seriously," BFMTV reported, citing a police source.

This alert resulted in "a partial interruption on the traffic of lines 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11, which pass through station of the Republic," RATP said.

Months after deadly attacks in January on satire magazine Charlie Hebdo that left dozens dead in Paris, calmness was broken once again in the French capital on Nov. 13 where fresh explosions and a series of shootings killed at least 130 people and wounded scores others.

The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed on Nov. 18 during a police raid in northern Paris suburbs Saint-Denis.

But another main suspect Salah Abdeslam is still at large. France has been in state of emergency since the attacks on Nov. 13. Enditem