Scottish police lower alert

2005-07-07 21:25

Gleneagles - Police on Thursday lowered their alert around a shopping area of the Scottish capital of Edinburgh after determining that a suspect package was harmless, police said.

Police had evacuated an area of Princes Street, a shopping district in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, after a suspect package was found on a bus, a spokesperson said.

She said a bomb disposal squad had carried out a controlled explosion and found no sign the package contained any explosives.

Police then "scaled down" the area that had been cordoned off, she said.

Police were on guard nationwide following a series of bomb blasts that killed dozens of people in London as leaders of the Group of Eight industrial countries held a summit at the Gleneagles golf resort in Scotland.

- AFP