{"id":254678,"date":"2016-07-08T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/envelope-of-white-powder-triggers-security-alert-at-uk-parliament\/"},"modified":"2016-07-08T19:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:22:04","slug":"envelope-of-white-powder-triggers-security-alert-at-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/envelope-of-white-powder-triggers-security-alert-at-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Envelope of 'white powder' triggers security alert at UK Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parts of the Westminster parliamentary estate in London were on lockdown on Thursday afternoon following reports of a \u201cchemical incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Officers\u00a0shut down areas to discover the source, and were\u00a0investigating\u00a0a \u201cwhite powder.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The substance is believed to have been found in an envelope addressed to a Peer, a member of the House of Lords.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police says: “A suspicious package has been delivered to the Houses of Parliament.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Officers are at the scene examining the contents of the package.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Parliament in lockdown. Letter to a peer being analysed by police over white powder in envelope.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) July 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Doors and windows were closed and people, including some Lords,\u00a0were reportedly locked out on the terrace.<\/p>\n

The police say nobody\u00a0was injured or made unwell in the incident.<\/p>\n

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“Chemical incident” on the Parliamentary estate. Police shutting down areas to discover source. Lords locked out on terrace<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tom McTague (@TomMcTague) July 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Times reporter Matt Chorley was\u00a0among those locked out, and\u00a0was tweeting from the terrace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Water now passed out on the terrace for those locked out by chemical incident. When should we be worried? “When you start turning green”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) July 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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@MattChorley<\/a> I can think of worst places to get stuck with the estate in lock down.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rachel Phipps (@makingmewonder) July 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parts of the Westminster parliamentary estate in London were on lockdown on Thursday afternoon following reports of a \u201cchemical incident.\u201d Officers\u00a0shut down areas to discover the source, and were\u00a0investigating\u00a0a \u201cwhite powder.\u201d The substance is believed to have been found in an envelope addressed to a Peer, a member of the House of Lords. A spokesperson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}