28 Oct 2011

Cordon down after mall incident

2:18 pm on 28 October 2011

Police in Wellington have removed a cordon from a suburban shopping mall saying an object discovered in a car park there was not an explosive.

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The cordon was put in place after a member of the public discovered the object at the Karori mall.

The car park was closed and a Defence Force bomb disposal unit called in to assess it.

Sergeant Aidan Ellims could not say what the object was, but ruled it out as being an explosive and a risk to the public.