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| Sydney's Barangaroo construction site evacuated after bomb scare | Sydney's Barangaroo construction site evacuated after bomb scare |
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| Workers began returning to Sydney's harbourside Barangaroo construction about noon on Monday, two hours after a bomb scare evacuation. | |
| Police and emergency services were called to the site shortly after 10am after reports of a bomb threat. | |
| Six blocks of the CBD, between Sussex and Clarence streets, were blocked off. | |
| A police spokesman would only confirm the site was evacuated because of a “police operation”. But the site developers confirmed the evacuation had been prompted by a bomb threat. | |
| "As a precautionary measure, the Barangaroo South construction site has been evacuated following police advice regarding a bomb threat," a spokesman for developers Lend Lease said. | "As a precautionary measure, the Barangaroo South construction site has been evacuated following police advice regarding a bomb threat," a spokesman for developers Lend Lease said. |
| Lend Lease held a community open day on Sunday and 6,500 people attended the construction site, one of Australia's largest. | |
| It's another hiccup for the controversial site, after two fires in March also caused evacuations. |