US police have declared an all-clear at Washington's Union Station and allowed people to re-enter the train terminal after a bomb threat forced a brief evacuation.
An Amtrak employee described the hour-long incident on Wednesday evening as a "false alarm" and said there would be a slight delay for trains.
People standing across the street from Union Station after being evacuated as police investigate suspicious package. pic.twitter.com/zADDygl7lA
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Scores of panicked people ran out of the American capital's main railway station while officers investigated a possible suspicious package after an earlier report of a bomb threat, police said.
A witness told Reuters that people began getting out of the station, a hub for railway, commuter train and subway service in the city, shortly after 5pm (local time).
During the alert, at least 20 police cars, a fire engine, an ambulance and vehicles from the US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service converged on the station.
