Suspicious Object Found at German Chancellory, Harmless: Police

The office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been sealed off due to a suspicious package.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of her election campaign tour bus in Berlin in 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

The office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was sealed off earlier today due to a suspicious package, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

“We are investigating a suspicious package,” a spokesman for Germany’s Federal Police told Reuters.

A Reuters eyewitness said there were four plastic yellow postal crates in the cordoned off area.

Recently the police told Ruptly that the package was declared harmless.