WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Francis Scott Key Bridge between Georgetown and Rosslyn reopened late Friday morning, Oct. 23, after a suspicious object spotted by the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C., shut the span and several nearby streets.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service were sent at about 8:40 a.m. to the embassy area on the 3300 block of M Street NW. The department sent its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit to help examine the object. Nobody was hurt.
A city alert issued at 9:13 a.m. confirmed the bridge and that block of M Street were closed, and a later notice added a stretch of Wisconsin Avenue NW from M Street up to O Street. Traffic was kept off the bridge in both directions for roughly two hours, and every lane was open again by 11:45 a.m.
The item sat close to the doors of the embassy consular section, and staff and visitors were moved out for a time. Denys Sienik, Ukraine’s charge d’affaires, said U.S. officers inspected it and found it was not a threat, and that consular services would soon resume.
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