Updated 1.58pm

A suspicious package reported on a Xagħra street was a false alarm, police said this afternoon. 

Army bomb disposal experts and police officials had been dispatched to Triq il-Knisja in the Gozitan town following reports of a suspicious package.

An eyewitness told Times of Malta that they saw at least six police officers and four Armed Forces of Malta officials at the scene. 

 

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