Building evacuated

Bomb threat? Parcel prompts police deployment

(Bild: Evelyn Hronek)

Large police contingent Wednesday morning near the Kreuzbergl in Klagenfurt. A building had to be evacuated because a "suspicious object was found."

"A suspicious object" led to a large police presence on Wednesday morning. "The object was discovered in the stairwell of a building near the Kreuzbergl in Herbertstraße, which houses an insurance company, the Swiss consulate and the Italian honorary consulate," announced police spokeswoman Waltraud Dullnigg.

Package in the stairwell
According to eyewitnesses, it was a package that had been left in the stairwell. It was not clear what it was until the afternoon. "It cannot be ruled out that it is a bomb-like object," says Dullnigg.

The building was cordoned off on a large scale and people were evacuated from the building. The suspicious package was x-rayed.

Bezirksinspektor Werner Pucher

The building was evacuated and searched with sniffer dogs. The demining service then arrived around midday. 

As it turned out, it was "much ado about nothing". The lockdown was lifted in the afternoon. During the investigation, no dangerous substances were discovered inside the package. The police were unwilling or unable to disclose what exactly was inside the package at the time of going to press.