The Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda, Maryland, was evacuated by Montgomery County Police on Friday after they acquired studies of a bomb menace. 

The bomb menace, nevertheless, turned out to be a false alarm.

MCPD knowledgeable the general public concerning the evacuation and bomb menace in a submit on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter, at 8:12 p.m.

Just underneath an hour later at 9:10 p.m. and after an investigation of the purported menace, MCPD decided that there was not a bomb, posting an replace on X to provide the general public the all-clear.

“Montgomery Mall bomb threat determined not valid. Mall has been cleared and turned back over to mall security,” MCPD wrote within the submit.

Customers have been then allowed to return to their Friday evening excursions contained in the shopping center.

MCPD has not but mentioned whether or not or not they've a suspect within the reporting of the false alarm bomb menace.

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