7/7 LONDON : Birmingham centre evacuated.BIRMINGHAM city centre was evacuated e·vac·u·ate v. e·vac·u·at·ed, e·vac·u·at·ing, e·vac·u·ates v.tr. 1. a. To empty or remove the contents of. b. To create a vacuum in. 2. last night over fears of a fresh terrorist attack. Shortly before 10pm, police ordered around 30,000 people to leave the area. Around 200 bars, clubs and restaurants were closed and searched after a 'credible' security threat was received. Police carried out controlled explosions on suspect objects but no bombs were found. They began the evacuation evacuation /evac·u·a·tion/ (e-vak?u-a´shun) 1. an emptying. 2. catharsis; emptying of the bowels. e·vac·u·a·tion n. by closing the Broad Street entertainment zone, asking people to go home. And traffic police stopped vehicles entering the city. Helicopters hovered over the area as the tension heightened in an area packed with thousands of Saturday night revellers. Birmingham club owner Allan Sartori said: 'It was quite scary. Nothing like this has happened before. We're lost money but people's lives are far more important than that.' Police also closed down part of the city's Chinese Quarter The Chinese Quarter is an area of Birmingham, United Kingdom. First emerging as an informal cluster of Chinese community organizations, social clubs, and businesses in the 1960s centred around Hurst Street, as a result of post-World War II migration from Hong Kong, the . Birmingham,which is 110miles north-west of London, was the target of one of the worst IRA bombings in the 1970s. Twenty-one people died in blasts which ripped apart two pubs in the Midlands city. Last night, police had yet to confirm the nature of the threat |
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