Bomb Scare Closes Large N.Y. Mall
Thousands of people were evacuated Wednesday in a bomb scare that shut a large suburban New York shopping mall for more than three hours, police said.
The evacuation followed the discovery of a package that looked like a bomb in a men’s room in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, about 30 miles north of New York City.
The device, which turned out not to be an explosive, was destroyed in a controlled detonation, a police spokesman said.
Police from several nearby towns, state police and the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department joined in the operation. A bomb squad from Bergen County, N.J., and New Jersey state police also helped.
The mall reopened about 7 p.m.
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